How telehealth is helping close the healthcare gap in rural Zimbabwe
“Rather than requiring rural patients to travel 50km or more to urban health facilities, the programme establishes digital health access points embedded within existing post office infrastructure,” he said.
A health worker assisting patients in a telehealth centre in Nyazura [Farai Shawn Matiashe/Al Jazeera]The programme connects patients in remote communities with healthcare professionals providing digital consultations, reducing the need for long journeys to see a doctor.
Tawanda Njerere, the organisation’s cofounder and chief operations officer, told Al Jazeera the programme was designed to create digital health access points within existing post office infrastructure.
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