We do not know if there is anywhere in the world where a telemedicine tool is helping strengthen human rights where they cannot be found. In Spain we find a case that brings eHealth and international cooperation together between Spain and some countries in Africa. This ehealth iniciative is led by Recover- Hospitals Foundation for Africa. Today this case serves us to give our contribution to the Blog Action Day , an annual event that is supported by the UN, with the participation of bloggers around the world who, on the same day, write about the same issue. This year, the Blog Action day is focused on human rights.
In this article we highlight the foundation's struggle in order to improve the health and ehealth sector and, above all , its struggle to make health accessible for people in some of the less developed countries in the world, such as Senegal, Burkina Fasso, Togo, Ghana and Cameroon. All of the mentioned are countries that have implemented very beneficial projects.
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Recover- Hospitals Foundation for Africa is able to implement its projects thanks to the generous contribution of doctors that look after patients that live far away. They care for them thanks to the exchange of health information that new technologies enable. What began as a basic telecare project (by e-mail) was improving thanks to technology. In 2011 the Foundation began using Medting network, sharing medical information in an easier way and achieving more efficiency in the project, thanks to second medical opinions. In short, an Internet support that draws patients from Africa to Spain.
In this blog we believe that access to health is a basic human right, and therefore we also believe that eHealth is a tool to help less developed societiesto access healthcare.