Telemedicine: Providing Specialized Care to Remote Communities
July 25, 2011 3:50 pm | by Melissa J. Pedreña, RN | Posted in News
The geographical nature of the Philippines with 7,107 islands and over 1,400 municipalities makes health care delivery in the country challenging. While the deployment of Doctors-to-the-Barrios (DttB) to Geographically Isolated and Disadvantaged Areas (GIDA) have helped ease this problem, a fraction of medical cases that DttBs attend to in their health units still require the […]