US Ambassador Cameron Munter on Thursday highlighted US-Pakistan cooperation in science, technology and health sectors during his visit to Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi. The ambassador and his wife Marilyn Wyatt met the faculty and students of Rawalpindi Medical College at Holy Family Hospital’s telemedicine facility which, working together with US hospitals, has trained more than 100 doctors nationwide, and treated more than 2,000 patients remotely by using cutting-edge technology.
US-Pakistan Science and Technology Cooperation focuses on many elements, including innovations in Pakistan’s public health sector. During a tour to the hospital with Holy Family Hospital’s Telemedicine E-Health Training Centre Project Director Dr Asif Zafar, Ambassador Munter said, “Holy Family’s partnership with American hospitals is an example of the true spirit of our people who work together across the oceans to improve access to healthcare in remote areas of Pakistan and treat the sick.”
He added, “We commend Dr Asif Zafar and the Holy Family team for their efforts to strengthen the health sector in Pakistan and look forward to more shared successes that bring Pakistanis and Americans closer together.”
Since 2003, the United States has provided over $16 million to Pakistan-US Science and Technology Cooperation that supports innovative and useful projects to broaden and expand relations between scientific and technological communities of both the countries.
Our Professors dont bother to see and examin patients in their wards and out door facilities and use such projects for their own interests. We dont have internet facilities at our rural upto disrict level hospitals so what is the fun of such a huge amount spending. It is waistage of money. Can the amount received be calculated for cost effectiveness of the 200 patients treatment. Can Pakistan afford these types of projects?
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