Our projects
Zambia Projects
In Zambia, we are in the process of embedding the Virtual Doctors service into the Zambian Health system. We are expanding our service into other countries in the region and adapting the service and technology to their needs. Our objective is to provide 750 rural healthcare workers in the region with access to medical knowledge that will improve the health of 18,000 people per year by 2025.
During this timeframe we will scale back our support, leaving the local health authorities to take over the service. Once institutionalised into the health system, we can then take a tried and tested model and implement it in other countries in the region, moulding it to meet their telemedicine/ehealth needs.
We have teamed up with Project N50 to put our Telemedicine service deeper into rural Zambia where data signals are unobtainable from traditional mobile networks.
Together we have set up a new Clinic in Luumbo District with N50 Project’s software and our Virtual Doctors service which means that much needed healthcare knowledge from the UK is now available to front line Clinical Officers in Zambia.
Going forward we will be identifying other rural communities in Africa where data signals are poor or non existent and deploying N50 and Virtual Doctors services together to improve healthcare for all.
Malawi Projects
We are patiently waiting for The Malawian Ministry of Health to confirm we can roll our service out to every District in the country. We have similar interest from other countries in the Africa region including Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Over the next 3 years we aim rollout our successful service to each of the 28 districts in Malawi, potentially reaching 1.8 million people. This will support Ministry of Health’s efforts to provide universal access to health care and achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.
In 2022, the Virtual Doctors aims to expand its service into 56 new sites providing access to quality health care to an additional 576,000 people in rural Malawi. Given then average size of each site’s catchment area, we estimate that over 22,321 people will potentially benefit.
