Cybernet Installs Satellite at UM Healthcare Trust

So it is official now. Cybernet, Pakistan's largest Internet Service Provider, as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility, has donated dedicated internet access via VSAT Satellite to UM Healthcare Trust's medical hospital in remote village of Zahidabad, Mardan District, NWFP, Pakistan.

The satellite based internet access will enable us to run Tele-healthcare services in collaboration with APPNA doctors in the USA as well as perform analysis on medical records to track pandemic diseases in real time using NUST's SUN based cluster for high performance computing.

This is yet another positive step towards the realization of extending affordable healthcare to the rural and needy population of Mardan District using ICT.

Cybernet and UM Healthcare Trust will be replicating this tele-healthcare services at other medical facilities in rural areas as well and connecting them with specialists and doctors in the cities.