Tele Health for Covid 19

Overview:

In collaboration with Health department, Govt of Sindh – Educast established Pakistan’s largest Covid-19 home isolation monitoring and consultation platform with 450 eDoctors from 14 countries and all provinces of Pakistan, these eDoctors were trained as Covid-19 care provider. This was a social enterprise project of EDUCAST Group as it volunteered to establish and provide services right from the start of Covid-19 cases in Pakistan in March 2020.

Process and Approach:

At start time of Covid 19 cases, Board of Directors decided to offer its helping hand to Govt of Sindh. The volunteer offers was given to the Chief Minister of the province through its state-of-the-art patient monitoring and assessment platform along with its globally located licensed Pakistani eDoctors. EDUCAST launched a major operation of its fight against covid through its front line eDoctors by providing tele health consultation, monitoring and support to thousands of home isolation patients in entire Sindh province. EDUCAST was lucky to have strong media support in this regard. World’s leading Medical School – Stanford University’s center for Medicine also came forward in training all Covid 19 fighting eDoctors, through its CDC standard training modules using online methodology. 6 week extensive course was delivered and enabled 450 eDoctors to get certified as covid 19 care givers on CDC standards, – first of their kind in the country.

Results Delivered:

In the process EDUCAST platform managed to treat, consult, assess and monitor over 450,000 infected individuals in Sindh Province, the highest number in the entire Covid-19 care operation in Pakistan by any single entity.

DURATION:

12 month (March 2020 – to date)

COST USD/PKR:

$75,000/12 million PKR

STAKEHOLDERS:

eDoctor
Chief Minister office- Sindh
Health Department – Govt of Sindh
Indus Hospital
Stanford University
GCS- 3CX platform vendors
Connect Communication

CONTACTS AND REFERENCES:

Dr Mehwish Qalbani
Dy Secretary- Focal Person COVID-19 – Chief Minister House

Mr Fayyaz Jatoi
Additional Secretary 11, Chief Minster House-Sindh

Dr. Abdul Bari Khan
Chief Executive Officer
Indus Hospital Network.

OUR PARTNERS

HEALTH DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT

Health Department The Provincial Health Ministry is a standard body for providing Medical Education Training & Employment. Its Mission Statement is:-

eDoctor

The most innovative Digital education technology training project is to bring back female doctors into practice.

GCS

Enhancing customer satisfaction by delivering leading-edge technology that enables us to give customers a sustainable integrated system