Message-ID: <Pine.3.88.9604040319.A9601-0100000@go> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 03:30:23 -0600 From: Abubakr Alkhalifa <mailto:aalkhali@CIS.USOUTHAL.EDU> Subject: Re: Traditional I.T. Before the Internet ?! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:> At 9:34 AM 2/4/96, Abubakr Alkhalifa wrote:
>
> [...]
> >I agree that paper and pencil are appropriate tools for "rural" Africa.=20
> >However, what can they do about the rate of 0.08 physicians / 1000 people
> >in Sub Saharan Africa? Yes, 8 physicians for every 100,000 people !!!!
>
> >If we have 1 nurse / 10 villages, we can provide him/her with an
> >Information system to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of suffering
> >patients who might otherwise die before any of them sees a doctor.
>
> That's crap, pure and simple.
Be objective, justify !!!!
> >Here is an idea for using the Internet to solve such a problem: the nurse
> >can consult an on-line "physician-on-duty" via the Internet, this
> >physician could be in the other side of the Globe.
>
> Come on, that doesn't even work in the US.
Come on, wake up Doctor, they do not need to do that in the US. We are the ones who need it. Why couldn't it be a last resort? What other alternative(s) do we have?
Abu _________________________________________________________________________
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