Jaroka Initiates Regular Tele-health Service from Mardan Pakistan with the USA

Today is a great day for rural health based services in Pakistan. Jaroka Tele-healthcare, in close collaboration with APPNA, NUST and UM Healthcare, has initiated a regular Tele-health referral service with US based specialists. This service is a result of months of trials and development by our team in Pakistan and USA.

Dr. Azam Kundi (USA) assisted our team in rural Mardan (200 KM north of Islamabad) . Medical records for those patients that require second opinion from a specialist, are sent via a store and forward method to the US using our Jaroka Tele-health solution for better diagnosis. A response is received back to our health facility in Mardan within a specified time.

Our goal is to refer at least five complicated cases per week for diagnosis by US specialists via Jaroka system on a regular basis. We will soon be replicating this model to other rural areas of Pakistan so that more communities can benifit from our work.

Jaroka Tele-health initiated tele-referral in 2006 with APPNA when dermatology cases were originally referred to the US doctors for treatment. With the launch of our regular service in Mardan, we have now expanded our service to more remote regions of Pakistan.