{"id":70785,"date":"2016-06-09T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-sends-satmed-e-health-platform-to-medical-center-in-benin-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:29:09","slug":"ses-sends-satmed-e-health-platform-to-medical-center-in-benin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-sends-satmed-e-health-platform-to-medical-center-in-benin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Sends SatMed E-Health Platform to Medical Center in Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-09-2016] <strong>SES<\/strong> has deployed a SatMed e-health platform at <strong>Centre de D\u00e9pistage et de traitement de l\u2019Ulc\u00e8re de Buruli <\/strong>(CDTUB) in Allada, Benin, to improve awareness and healthcare. <strong>Fondation Follereau Luxembourg <\/strong>(FFL) will use the satellite-based platform to communicate with doctors and medical experts around the world, access online training tools, and establish facilities such as video conferencing, data collection and analysis. The deployment is part of FFL\u2019s efforts to establish a consultation office at CDTUB \u2014 which treated more than 700 patients in 2015 \u2014 to improve communication between patients and medical staff, raising further awareness of tropical diseases.<\/p>\n<p>SES subsidiary SES Techcom Services created the SatMed e-health platform, for which the Luxembourg government and the <strong>Ministry for Cooperation and Humanitarian Action <\/strong>provide funding. The first deployment of SatMed in Benin successfully took place at the remote maternity hospital of <strong>Ahozonnoude<\/strong> in June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to partner with SES for this important project, which will allow early detection of symptoms in patients, significantly improving treatment and recovery rate,\u201d said Violaine Alves, project manager at FFL. \u201cBuruli Ulcer is often hard to detect by untrained people, particularly by the patients themselves or their parents, so raising awareness in the community with SatMed will be of utmost benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-09-2016] SES has deployed a SatMed e-health platform at Centre de D\u00e9pistage et de traitement de l\u2019Ulc\u00e8re de Buruli (CDTUB) in Allada, Benin, to improve awareness and healthcare. Fondation Follereau Luxembourg (FFL) will use the satellite-based platform to communicate with doctors and medical experts around the world, access online training tools, and establish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}