Telemedicine: an imperative concept during COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

With social distancing being a key preventative measure of COVID-19, proper provision of healthcare services becomes a challenge as healthcare professionals are concerned about the risk of potential infection. Telemedicine, a practice that uses telecommunication networks for the delivery of healthca...

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Autores principales: David, Kenneth Bitrus, Solomon, Joan Kuyet, Yunusa, Ismaeel, Lawal, Basira Kankia, Marshal, Cephas Stanley, Okereke, Melody, Ozuluoha, Cynthia Chioma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7687473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282084
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.25281
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author David, Kenneth Bitrus
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Yunusa, Ismaeel
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Solomon, Joan Kuyet
Yunusa, Ismaeel
Lawal, Basira Kankia
Marshal, Cephas Stanley
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description With social distancing being a key preventative measure of COVID-19, proper provision of healthcare services becomes a challenge as healthcare professionals are concerned about the risk of potential infection. Telemedicine, a practice that uses telecommunication networks for the delivery of healthcare services and medical education, has been adopted by several countries and has shown to provide positive outcomes. This concept is poorly practiced in African Countries compared to other countries of the world. This paper reiterates the need for the expansion of telemedical systems in Africa for the dual goals of COVID-19 prevention and provision of quality healthcare services to people.
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spelling pubmed-76874732020-12-03 Telemedicine: an imperative concept during COVID-19 pandemic in Africa David, Kenneth Bitrus Solomon, Joan Kuyet Yunusa, Ismaeel Lawal, Basira Kankia Marshal, Cephas Stanley Okereke, Melody Ozuluoha, Cynthia Chioma Pan Afr Med J Commentary With social distancing being a key preventative measure of COVID-19, proper provision of healthcare services becomes a challenge as healthcare professionals are concerned about the risk of potential infection. Telemedicine, a practice that uses telecommunication networks for the delivery of healthcare services and medical education, has been adopted by several countries and has shown to provide positive outcomes. This concept is poorly practiced in African Countries compared to other countries of the world. This paper reiterates the need for the expansion of telemedical systems in Africa for the dual goals of COVID-19 prevention and provision of quality healthcare services to people. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7687473/ /pubmed/33282084 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2020.35.25281 Text en ©Kenneth Bitrus David et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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