Econet chief executive officer Douglas Mboweni told the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth and Indigenisation yesterday that pilot projects would be launched at selected rural centres soon.
The Justice Mayor Wadyajena-led committee had toured Econet to find out if the company was giving back to the community through youth empowerment projects. “We have developed the National Health Care Trust where previously it was used to help the nation during the cholera and typhoid epidemics, as well as during the Chingwizi disaster,” Mboweni said.
“We are deliberating on bringing equipment and software kits that will make it easy for the population to access healthcare services and are piloting telebooths so that people in rural areas can be able to interact with health personnel without physically visiting clinics,” he said.
According to Mboweni, the system will be able to transmit pictures of the patient so that doctors can easily access the ailment and prescribe treatment through the computerised system.
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