UP Alumni Donate Laptops for Telemedicine

January 7, 2013 3:08 pm | by Aliyah Lou Evangelista | Posted in News

Manila, Philippines-The Univerisity of the Philippines Medical Alumni Society in America (UPMASA)  donate laptops and mobile phones to support telemedicine practice of UP graduates enrolled under the Doctors to the Barrios Program.

In the photo are doctors from the provinces of Aurora, Quezon, Isabela, Cagayan Valley, Eastern, and Western Samar receiving the laptops from the National Telehealth Center staff.

UPMASA has been supporting the NTHC’ National Telehealth Service Program (NTSP), a nationwide initiative with the Department of Health that aims to extend specialize care to remote communities through telemedicine. Since 2006, NTHC has been conducting telemedicine to areas as far as Batanes down to Tawi-tawi.