Eva LĂłpez Torre, a public health expert and professor at the San Rafael Nebrija University Center in Madrid, presented a telemedicine kit designed with Kerox Technology, which is a support tool for the community health project being carried out in Iquitos, Peru, by the San Juan de Dios Clinic located there, with the support of the San Juan de Dios Foundation and Juan Ciudad NGO.
The presentation took place on May 21st as part of the "Bringing Worlds Together" conference, organized by the Digital Health Association at the Impact Hub Madrid space, to reflect on the major challenges of cooperation in the field of health.
The telemedicine suitcase will allow:
â Unify criteria for collecting health data among the beneficiary population
â Effective and efficient classification and custody of information.
â Direct and simple transmission.
â No loss of information.
Eva LĂłpez Torre traveled to Iquitos with members of Juan Ciudad NGO in December 2016 to collaborate on the community health project, which began in May 2017 and is supported by the San Juan de Dios Clinic in Iquitos, located in the Peruvian Amazon.
The project is managed by Juan Ciudad NGO and funded by the San Juan de Dios Foundation of the Province of Castilla of the Hospitaller Order of San Juan de Dios and the Regional Government of Castilla y LeĂłn. The project aims to improve the quality of life and health of the population in the four settlements in Iquitos, which have high rates of poverty and health problems, through an intervention based on community-based health promotion and prevention.
To this end, four university promoters and 16 community health agents from the settlements themselves were trained. They are carrying out intensive training and field work, reaching a total of 1,859 people to date.
News source: JCONGD Communication
Photos: San Juan de Dios Foundation and JCONGD
