The project got funded!

So this has just been confirmed. The Jaroka tele-health project, that we are developing has received further boost as it successfully received joint grant funding from USAID and HEC. Our's was one of the 19 applications that got funded from a pool of 116. The funding is for two years, commencing from April 1, 2008 to develop and deploy the Jaroka tele-health system for rural Mardan district (NWFP, Pakistan) and for capacity building of local healthcare professionals including Lady Health Workers. The project will also deploy Pakistan's first mobile based tele-health services in rural Pakistan. Once successful, it will be replicated in other parts/districts of Pakistan.

The project provides financial support to procure medical equipment, essential hardware to run tele-health services and even covers the salaries of two medical doctors and other healthcare professionals..

Our partners in this grant are APPNA, NUST, UM Healthcare Trust and Cogilent Solutions.

Skardu Telemedicine

Tele-healthcare's jaroka project, in collaboration with APPNA, Digital Vision Program at Stanford University and COMSATS have initiated a pilot project for testing and studying the prospects of managing a remote telemedicine center with specialists located in the USA. The remote health facility is located in Skardu Pakistan, a remote town in the Himalayan mountainous region of Pakistan.

The details of the project can be found on Tele-healthcare website under Skardu Project.

It should be noted that this is Pakistan's first Tele-medicine project which connected patients in a rural Skardu with international specialists in Boston, USA.