Mission “telemedicine” completed in several aimag hospitals
What did the doctors and nurses have learnt as Dr. Erdenetsogt visited them? The medical staff was trained in using a microscope, using a camera to capture histopathology pictures and have learnt how to create a patients case on CampusMedicus and upload the pictures to the telemedicine network.
(firmenpresse) - In 1996 Dr. Pierre Tschantz, an adventurous Swiss surgeon, realized during travelling through Mongolia a lack of working equipment, a lack of up-to-date medical training; and medical practices that fell far short of the 20th century standards.
That’s in brief the reason why the Swiss Surgical Team (SST) started on a voluntary basis training the Mongolian physicians in surgical techniques and patient management in 1998. The training they provide is hands-on down to the present day. Swiss and Mongolian surgeons work together as a team with patients from diagnosis through to post-operative care.
After ten years, in 2008, the SST, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in cooperation with WHO Mongolia and the Health Sciences University of Mongolia additional implemented the project ’Building a Telemedicine Network’ in Mongolia.
In the beginning the Department of Pathology, HSUM, in Ulan Bator and the branch University of HSUM in Sainshand have been equipped with Telemedicine-Packages.
In the following year three more hospitals in Ulan Bator as well as 12 other general hospitals in different aimags were equipped with telemedicine hardware packages.
In 2010 the project evolved further. More TelePathology, TeleHealth and TeleTeaching packages were sent to five aimag hospitals in order to extend the telemedicine network in Mongolia.
In order to use these telemedicine packages correctly the technique has to be known. TelePathology packages include a microscope, a camera, and a computer. With access to the internet the Mongolian telemedicine network is connected. The Mongolian expert doctor Dr. Dungubat Erdenetsogt visited hospitals in the aimags Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs and Zavkhan last week. He did a training of pathologists and laboratory people. These aimags are more than 1.000 km away from Ulan Bator.
Ulan Bator is the capital and largest city in Mongolia. It is home to about 45 per cent of the population. Approximately 30% of the populations are nomadic or semi-nomadic. The access to good medical services sometimes only exists in the capital of Ulan Bator and travelling in Mongolia by train or plane is expensive and takes many hours often more than a day.
What did the doctors and nurses have learnt as Dr. Erdenetsogt visited them? The medical staff was trained in using a microscope, using a camera to capture histopathology pictures and have learnt how to create a patients case on CampusMedicus and upload the pictures to the telemedicine network.
Dr. Dungubat Erdenetsogt said: “Generally, the ultimate result of this mission was very excellent, and color adjustment has getting perfect now to every aimag. “
This project is realised with the Germany company Klughammer GmbH. They developed a web-based telemedicine network called CampusMedicus. Through the web-based telemedicine network aid stations in the countryside aimag hospitals are linked to hospitals in Ulan Bator and to expert pathologists in the world. The different packages connect medical staff or doctors (non-experts) in the countryside with experts of the network or experts in Ulan Bator. Using the telemedicine software CampusMedicus 2nd opinion and frozen section diagnosis are possible as well as epidemiology/statistics and medical teaching.
The internet makes the world a smaller place. In wealthy countries the medical treatment presents a good infrastructure. Experts are available in many fields and treatment is given at any time and everywhere. As you have read in the beginning the Mongolian doctors had been left to their own years ago but this is no more the case. Telemedicine, this new technological achievement plays an important part in providing access to medical care in non developed countries.
Telemedicine is a bridge, a bridge to the healthiness of people worldwide.
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Campus Medicus is a web-based telemedicine network of the Klughammer GmbH which connects physicians all over the world, allows consultation with other physicians about diagnosis, collect and analyses data and owns a teaching application which provides high quality medical education with the internet. We provide this necessary technology for these applications.
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Datum: 13.09.2011 - 09:24 Uhr
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