ISDB: - ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK
EDUCAST and Islamic Development Bank In last quarter of 2019 EDUCAST was awarded Top Healthcare innovation among 91 countries and 1100 projects at Islamic Development Bank supported Transform Fund Initiative. Resulting EDUCAST received a seed grant to establish a pilot project in getting eDoctors trained on Maternal and Child Health and linking them with existing Mother & Child healthcare providing – organization to provide timely and quality advisory aiming towards reduction of maternal and infant mortality rate by taking advantage of digital health and innovation EDUCAST has also expanded its Telehealth services in the conflict zone The start of 2021 has seen EDUCAST going in Yemen, a war torn country and initially getting permissions to establish Maternal and Child Tele-clinics in 3 districts of the southern part of Yemen. Alongside, EDUCAST has also partnered with HANDS (a leading NGO in Health and Education sectors) to establish 50 tele-home-clinics and online women and child tele-consulting services in Karachi with the help of 50 eDoctors initially, with an aim to develop and extend the network to hundreds with Pakistan in coming year.
OVERVIEW
: In Nov 2020, Transform Fund, which is a $ 500 Mil USD Innovation Fund under Islamic Development Bank’s Science and Technology Initiative, in its global challenge fund out of 1100 projects from 91 countries competing in different SGDs, From Healthcare segment selected EDUCAST project “Establishment a virtual Medical Education and Training platform to utilize Innovative TeleHealth and Remote monitoring in aid to reduce the growing rate of Maternal and Infant Mortality in Pakistan”.
PROCESS AND APPROACH
EDUCAST participated In Transform Challenge Fund and got selected for their Maternal and Child Health and Mortality reduction through use of eDoctors Project , IsDB awarded a Basic Grant for enabling the pilot project in Pakistan. EDUCAST in collaboration with Leading Medical Education and capacity building institutes have been working to get out of work female doctors come back to medical profession through online refresher and hands on trainings with clinical rotations. In its effort of 24 months, Educast has been successful to enable hundreds of such Pakistani female eDoctors from Pakistan and from 24 international locations, the total out of work Pakistani doctors is more than 25,000 Spread all over the globe. Through the Funding by IsDB, Educast was able to create more such Female doctors and also created collaboration with Leading Non Govt and Government organizations for the utilization of these eDoctors. Results Delivered: Through support of IsDB many of the previously home based Pakistani Female doctors are now working with Government and NGO sector. A total of 1000 Female doctors on whom Govt/Parents had spend Ts 5.0 million/$ 35,000 for their education and initial house job are now back in the national health network. An estimated amount of Rs 5.0 billion /$ 30 million USD worth of lost investment has now returned back inform of eDoctors. These Retrained and Certified eDoctors are now helping the healthcare sector through use of eHealth to fight against growing rate of Maternal and Infant mortality and morbidity in Pakistan
