Suburban West Africa, the next generation career IP backbone solutions provider has entered into partnership with National Hospital, Abuja and has launched its telemedicine project on sickle cell diagnoses.
This is part of activities marking its 10 years anniversary and corporate social responsibility programme.
The project was launched last week at National Hospital Abuja.
Bruce Ayonote, chief executive officer Suburban West Africa in a welcome address said, the project objective was in line with health as it affects lives and the society generally.
According to him, the company decided to look more towards social responsibility by providing the needed services through the use of ICT as it affects lives.
He said that the telemedicine network is deployed at an affordable rate with a clear motive of reaching out to the people health wise and consultancy services both home and abroad.
He said, some organizations has from the time past come out with such project for profit objective but that his company would add value and satisfy people.
Ayonote stated that the services will be sustained and will provide alternative to power, and that the network is connected to other fibres to avoid service failure.
Contributing Tope Folayan, chief strategist officer, Suburban explained that the health of a person is paramount to his company.
He noted that telemedicine project is of three types, the one that stores information of people with medical records and pictures and send them to whoever need them, and the remote monitoring type which are used by radiologist to check the movement of persons very close to you and the third one, the most advanced one which is the long distance telemedicine which sub-urban choose to deploy to National Hospital in other to give the most effective services to the people, he said the reasons are that, sub-urban is capable of providing the services and the long distance telemedicine is the fore front of the combination of IT telecommunication and medicine to provide good services.
In his speech, Dr. Segun Ajuwon, chief medical officer, National Hospital Abuja said Suburban telemedicine project will go a long way by bringing a unique advantage in the treatment of sickle cell patient at home and abroad and they would partner with sub-urban to give out the best services to Nigerians.
He therefore called on all specialist doctors, residing outside the country to get ready to partner with National Hospital in order to provide the needed and the well equipped knowledge at home.
Chief Abiye Sekibo, chairman of Suburban West Africa, said that the network deployed to National Hospital will give the best services to the people and it will make the world a global home where people would not be spending money traveling abroad for medication, that they can always come to National Hospital and get the medication here in Nigeria.
