Vanuatu Inter-Island Telemedicine and Learning (VITAL) Network Project

Details of the organization
Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Vanuatu
https://ogcio.gov.vu/
Governments
  • The organization has a strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level: Yes
  • The organization has a national e-strategy: Yes

Information about the project
Vanuatu Inter-Island Telemedicine and Learning (VITAL) Network Project
VITAL
The Vanuatu Inter-Island Telemedicine and Learning (VITAL) Network Project began in the geographically isolated and remote village of Naviso on Maewo Island. A community with no cellular network successfully advocated for Internet access to communicate with doctors at a hospital in Luganville, on Santo Island. Leveraging a multi-stakeholder approach, in less than six months, two villages have engaged with doctors over 1,250 times and have helped 32 patients. This includes six life-threatening cases involving mothers and children, and ten patients who would have been permanently disabled without intervention.
National implementation: Vanuatu
Ongoing from 24/10/2015 to 31/12/2016
Vanuatu Office of the Chief Information Officer Vanuatu Ministry of Health Vanuatu Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulator Maewo Telecommunications Committee

WSIS information
      * E-health
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