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«Fundación Recover, Hospitals for Africa has carried out, over the last year, an exhaustive investigation regarding the Origin of telemedicine in the world and how this can become a A tool that offers continuous training, knowledge, exchange and development.
In our country, the Recover Foundation has been implementing this technology for a decade, thanks to the program “Telemedicine: healthcare that connects”, which has made it possible for African hospitals and specialist doctors from Spain can contact each other directly or by telephone in complex cases for collaborative purposes..
The research carried out has the objective of to show how telemedicine has come this far, Since the origins of Information and Communication Technologies (hereinafter, ICT), and its evolution after almost a century of constant technological development, and, on the other hand, what could be the reason for this? The future of medicine in conjunction with telecommunications.
Population > 200,000
0.5 Doctors/1000 Inhabitants
From 2025
2 health centres supported
Telemedicine, infrastructures
Incidence in 13,000 people
1,24 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants
Since 2007
71 health centres supported
Hospital management, electricity, water and sanitation infrastructure, health campaigns (child malnutrition, cervical cancer, cardiovascular risk, malaria, sickle cell disease), equipment (operating theatre, laboratory and physiotherapy equipment, X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, electrocardiograms, incubators, dental chairs, ambulances, etc.), training scholarships in Spain and Africa, telemedicine, intervention of 63 patients in Spain.
Incidence in 998,218 people
1 Doctor/10,000 Inhabitants
Since 2007
3 health centres supported
Intervention for cardiac patients in Spain, telemedicine
Incidence in 60,000 people
0,62 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants
Since 2018
2 health centres intervened
Maternity infrastructure, drinking water, energy, ultrasound equipment, management
Incidence in 20,850 people
