MoU signed to expand E-doctors programme

Under the memorandum female doctors will be brought back through the E-doctors programme by DUHS

KARACHI: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS) and Educast signed a memorandum of understanding on Saturday in which they agreed to ensure provision of telemedicine facilities through the service of E-doctors programme in 40 districts of Pakistan.

Under the memorandum, female doctors who graduated from different medical education institutes will be brought back in the field of medicine through the E-doctors programme by DUHS. HANDs will help expand the programme by providing the facility of E-doctors to ordinary patients in different districts of Pakistan through its network present in the social sector. Dow University will design different certificate courses to provide grooming and academic facilities to the doctors, while Educast will provide its technical support to make this project successful. More than 500 doctors who were not practising have been brought back to the field after training. 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2019.