Last year, information emerged that patients in Angola will be assisted by telemedicine, now the good news goes to the population living in the province of Uíge, once the Telemedicine Service will be installed this year in the province.
The medical assistance to the people of the province of Uíge will see a significant improvement, with the installation of telemedicine service points, which aims to monitor patients in areas of medicine where there are no specialist doctors.
O announcement was made recently by the Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, on the sidelines of the two-day working visit to Uíge province. The minister said that the region currently has a high endemic profile that places it among the five provinces in the country with the highest rate of cases of malaria, malaria and cholera. The leader also assured that, based on these data, the sector defined as strategy for this year the installation in the province of Uíge of this equipment, as there are still hospitals without specialist doctors, especially the more distant regional and municipal ones.
Are there any provinces with the service already installed?
The tests of telemedicine technology in the country started in Huambo and Moxico and the results achieved so far are encouraging. “With the use of this technology, specialists were able to access exams from anywhere in the country, using computers and mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets connected to the Internet.
The minister considers the use of telemedicine in endemic provinces a priority and explained that in Huambo and Moxico, where the equipment is already used, technicians have long since stopped transferring to more differentiated care for Luanda, without first assessing the patient, in a consultation by telemedicine.
