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.

Free Medical Camp in Rural Mardan

This past weekend, (May 31, 2008) UM Healthcare Trust (our nonprofit organization for healthcare in Pakistan) organized an extremely successful free medical camp for the poor and needy at remote Village of Zahidabad in rural Mardan District, NWFP.

Patients had begun flocking the facility from early in the morning and continued to come till late in the evening. In all, over 180 patients were treated by specialists for mother and child health related diseases. The doctors who had driven specially to Mardan from Lahore to partake in this endeavor were extremely pleased with the outcome. "We shall be back again with even more doctors in the coming future" mentioned Dr. Muzammil Zaidi (Pediatrician).

Free medicines were also distributed among the needy patients.

Such medical camps will now become a regular feature of UM Healthcare Trust "Healthcare Outreach Program". The last Saturday of each month is now designated as "Free Camp Weekend". Hence, if any doctor/nurse wants to donate their time and effort, please let us know and we would be happy to schedule you in.

Event in Pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/mumtaz.atif/FreeMedicalCamp