The next time you talk to a doctor might not be in a consulting room, but on a mobile phone, as efforts continue to take health care to the limit.
A technology firm, ChitHub Medical Solutions has launched the Phone-a-Doctor service, a call operator platform that allows Nigerians to lay their health concerns before a doctor by simply dialing 0700D0CTORS.
ChitHub chief executive officer, Michael Agbogo, who conceived the platform while watching a phone-in programme on a business trip to South Africa, said the use of technology and GSM would allow people in rural areas to have access to the same level of health care are in the cities. “The major problem we have in health care is it bring available, affordable and accessible to the people,” he said at the launch of 0700DOCTORS in Abuja.
A call to the line puts patients in touch with any available expert in a standing pool of general practitioners and consultants who save patient history to profiles and can diagnose conditions, send prescriptions to patients by SMS or refer them to pharmacies, and to nearest hospitals for advanced care.
By: Judd-Leonard Okafor
Daily Trust News
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