Pan-African Telemedicine System Launched in Tripoli

An electronic permanent and distant medicine (telemedicine) learning programme, connecting African hospitals and universities to their Indian counterparts, has just been launched at the Burns Hospital in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

The launching was made under the supervision of the Libyan Specialised Medical Field Council and the Post Offices, Telecommunication and Information Technology Holding in the presence of Jean-Pierre Onvehun Ezin, the African Union Commissioner in charge of Human Resources, Science and Technology.

Sources close to the Libyan-African company of African Satelitte, Rascom Star-Qaf, have been reported declaring that the project was aimed at connecting distant learning centres and health facilities of African Union member-countries with their Indian counterparts along with the Libyan specialised medical field centre, Libyan hospitals and health centres and Tripoli's Al-Fateh University.