Telemedicine and health care can be delivered in Ethiopia in at least two ways. A paramedic, midwife or doctor can travel from village to village with satellite phone, ultrasound scan and a few other pieces of equipment which enable consultation with a distant hospital, service provider or on-line medical database.
Alternatively, a telemedicine service can be co-located
with a "telecentre" — a community centre, church, school, post office or
police station, at which the communications needs of several user groups
can be aggregated in order to maximize the utility and lower the cost of
providing a community telecoms service.
To facilitate the study, Inmarsat has prepared a questionnaire, which was distributed by the ITU and Inmarsat to their respective memberships in September 1995. The responses to the questionnaire are reflected in the second draft of the telemedicine report, which was prepared by Inmarsat and sent to the ITU Study Group for consideration in late 1995. The draft report contains a survey of the use of telemedicine around the world, appropriate technologies and a framework for evaluating the cost-benefits.
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