Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) and Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC)
Scope of Work
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SUPARCO in collaboration with JPMC has established a satellite communication based telemedicine network as pilot project which has been successfully established using VSAT antenna
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Two sites have been connected through Paksat-1 satellite transponder, one at Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center (JPMC), Karachi as hub and other at Shikarpur civil hospital (interior Sindh) as remote site
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Live Video conferencing has linked specialists in JPMC to patients in rural areas thus providing specialist health care services to the rural areas
Tele-Medicine
