DUTCH electronics company Philips will soon be offering an online diagnosis project aimed at offering free specialist diagnosis to rural communities in the Philippines.
The project would allow medical practitioners to send via the Web the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans of patients from rural areas to available medical specialists in other cities.
Philips Group of Companies Philippines President Med Mateo said in an interview that the project is aimed at providing expert diagnosis for MRI scans in areas where there are no specialists available.
“There is an obvious lack of medical specialists in the country and those that are here are mostly concentrated in bigger cities. The availability of MRI scans does not solve the problem of correct diagnosis and this is what the web-based diagnosis will try to address,” Mateo said.
Philips will partner with the Department of Health to provide the specialists who would offer free diagnosis to medical practitioners in rural areas.
Philips will invest 300,000 euros for the project, which is expected to span three years. It is expected to start in August this year.
The web-based diagnosis project is a follow-up to a previous community health project called ORET, jointly conducted by Philips Electronics and the Dutch Government.
ORET is a loan 22-million-euro loan from the Dutch government to hospitals in the Philippines.
The loan will be used to acquire new equipment such as MRIs, ultrasound and CT scans to 11 beneficiary hospitals.
According to Mateo, five hospitals in Quezon City, Bicol, Davao and Iloilo will be the first beneficiaries of the ORET project.
He said the web-based project would start once three ORET beneficiary hospitals have completed the acquisition of their equipment.
Philips is a manufacturer of various electronics products, among which includes audio-video home appliances, lighting devices and medical equipment.
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