fwd: Afghanistan asks India for help in health care: technological integration of the world

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From: Jocelin Lebier
To: afghaniyat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Afghanistan asks India for help in health care
Date: Mar 18, 2005
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> Associated Press
> March 18, 2005 7:37 AM Eastern Time
> Afghanistan asks India for help in health care
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> Afghanistan's public health minister asked Indian officials on Friday
> to help bring modern health care to his war-ravaged nation, officials
> said.
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> Afghanistan will set up a countrywide network of "telemedicine"
> centers with the help of India's space agency, the Indian Space
> Research Organization, said Abdul Salam Jalali, a member of the
> delegation.
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> Telemedicine centers are located in areas where hospitals don't exist
> or specialists are not available. They are equipped with a computer,
> video camera, clinical equipment and a satellite connection which
> allow doctors in another location to examine patients.
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> He said Afghan Public Health Minister Syed Mohammed Amin Fatimie held
> talks with officials of India's health and family welfare ministry
> and visited hospitals in New Delhi.
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> "Two and a half decades of war and internal fighting have destroyed
> our infrastructure, including health care facilities," Jalali said in
> the southern city of Bangalore.
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> In the first phase, Afghanistan will set up telemedicine centers in
> 11 cities, including Kabul, Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalali said.
> The first center in Kabul will become operational in early 2006, he
> said.
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> Jalali, also the director of the Indira Gandhi Institute for child
> health, a hospital in Kabul set up with Indian assistance, said
> Afghanistan lacks specialists to provide advanced medical care in
> several disciplines. Afghan hospitals are in talks with several
> Indian hospitals to enable these patients to get treated in India at
> affordable rates, he said.
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