We believe good health care is everyone’s right. Yet 400 million people in the world can’t afford or don’t have access to basic health care.
In rural portions of Nigeria, a country with only one physician for every 2,500 people, many Nigerians seeking health services have to make arduous trips. The result, of course, is that a great many people simply don’t receive care. While it would be ideal to get more doctors in remote regions, that would take years.
Local Rotarians are part of a larger effort to bring technology to bear on the problem, using telemedicine – the use of information technology to provide health care from a distance – to bring doctors to patients virtually. And thanks to a global grant from The Rotary Foundation, a team of health care professionals from Nigeria has been trained in telemedicine.
Team members learn the telemedicine software in Nigeria. The team observes a demonstration of a telemedicine robot
