Dr. Farid Qazi, MD

Introduction

• In Pakistan, the number of admissions offered to females candidates, in medical institutions, is very high.

• Despite completing their degree and house jobs, many of these individual leave the medical profession.

– Various reasons for leaving.

• This leaves a void in the healthcare support system(s).

Initiatives

• ICT based Healthcare sector.

• Female doctors’ Empowerment.

– How?

• Creating the largest home-based, female healthcare network.

• Bring back investments, worth billions, made by the government into medical education.

Partners

www.educast.co.ukwww.duhs.edu.pk

TECHNOLOGYACADEMICS

www.dogana.org

www.edoctor.net.pk

• TeleHealth and Home based Video consultation.

• eDOCTOR

– New paradigm to bring back billions of rupees of govt investments into the healthcare system.

• NOTE: Education and House job training of each doctor costs approximately PKR 5 million.

Concept and Outcome

Live, Virtual Medical Education

5 U

3 U

5 U

FROM STUDIO THE

TRANSMISSION

UPLINKED TO MAIN

NOC

5 U

3 U

EDUCAST eDOCTOR

VIRTUAL STUDIO

TRANSCODED AND UPLINKED TO

CONNECT’S WLAN, CONNECTED WITH

EDUCAST ENCODING SERVERS

DATABASE

Printer PBX SERVER

BACKUP DRIVE

ULP-MAIN ENCODING

SERVER

Traniees

• Internal Medicine.– Specialties.

• Hands on General and Physical Examinations.

• ENT and Ophthalmology.

• Pediatrics and OB/GYN.

• General surgery and Orthopedics.

• Psychiatry.

Courses

Academic Management

eDOCTOR Faculty

Associate and Assistant Professors

• Numerous Training Classrooms

• Transmission Station

• eDOCTOR Call Center

• Data Center.

Technical Infrastructure

Training• Basic Life Support (BLS)

• First Aid

• Diagnostic Workups

• OB/GYN

– Mannequin training sessions

Mother & Child Home Clinics

Overseas Pakistani House Wives become eDoctors (Medical Officers) to treat Pakistani patients via Tele Health from these Locations

Karachi 145Ghotki 1 Hyderabad 8Kashmore 1Mirpurkhas 1Nawabshah 1Benazirabad 1Sukkher 1Faisalabad 2Islamabad 10Lahore 9Sargodha 1Balochistan 1Kohat 1Peshawar 2

DOMESTIC

Australia 1Bahrain 2Canada 13China 2Indonesia 1Saudia 37Malaysia 1Oman 2Qatar 8Singapore 1Turkey 1UAE 24UK 4USA 11

Support

Endorsements

Federal Ministry of

National Health Services,

Regulation and

Coordination,

Govt of Pakistan

National Maternal, Neonatal &

Child Health Program,

Govt of Sindh

Pakistan Medical

Association, Karachi

National

Committee

For Maternal &

Neonatal Health

College of

Family Medicine

New Academic Support

Goals

• Empowering home based female doctors.

• Commercializing Network.

• Social Sector Healthcare.

LIVE VIRTUAL CLASSES BY PAKISTANI AMERICAN

HEALTHCARE EXPERTS- OF “DOW GRADUATE

ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA” –DOGANA

THROUGH LIVE VIDEO LINK-CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS

WITH “eDOCTOR”.

TO ESTABLISH

VIRTUAL STUDY

CENTER WITH

“eDOCTORS”

A VERY IMPORTANT ACADEMIC SUPPORT FROM PRACTISING DOGANA DOCTORS TOWARDS eDOCTOR

PROJECT OF GETTING THE “OUT OF WORK LADY DOCTORS”BACK INTO PRACTISE THROUGH VIRTUAL TEACHING TOOLS

Outcomes

• Social Sector Healthcare providers and Leading Medical centers.

• Plan to offer commercial engagement to home based retrained doctors.

• Seek deployment resources for telemedicine equipment at partner clinics in remote areas.

• Financial support for eDoctor.

• This project is planned as pilot for the first batch of retrained female doctors for the Q1 of 2019.

Thank You