Wednesday, October 7, 2009

#005 53 AFRICAN HOSPITALS LINKED THROUGH A TELEMEDICINE PROJECT

Shri Ramachandra University, Tamil Nadu launched a pan-African E-Network Project to extend continuing medical education and training programs for nurses and para medical staff. They also claim to provide online medical consultation for 79,000 hours, offline advice to five patients per day in each of the 53 African countries.

So far, so good. But my small MIND gets a small doubt. Is SRU doing all this with philanthropic purpose? Not. They seem to have an eye to capture some education business and make some bucks from the poor Africa which has already been deprived by the Europe and the US.

Why not SRU extend the same service to the remote Primary Health Centres in Tamil Nadu run by the Government of Tamil Nadu?

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