Staff attitudes and patients complaining of being treated badly by healthcare workers at some clinics in the Eastern Cape were among the issues flagged in the latest report by community-led clinic monitoring group Ritshidze. Luvuyo Mehlwana reports.
Staff attitudes and patients complaining of being treated badly by healthcare workers at some clinics in the Eastern Cape were among the issues flagged in the latest report by community-led clinic monitoring group, Ritshidze.
With the ever increasing cases of Covid-19 in the country, the Department of Health turned to mobile technology as a solution for improving critical access to healthcare in Gauteng.
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Apr 05, 2021The global challenge of delivering supplies and medicines quickly to healthcare providers is being addressed by some companies using Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to track everything from vaccines to boxes of gloves as they are transported to all continents in the ongoing effort to treat patients and control COVID-19. Since last year, Vodafone Business has been providing IoT-based pandemic-response solutions to healthcare service providers and technology companies around the world.
The solution leverages a SIM card with cellular connectivity via Vodafone s cellular network, as well as a cloud-based software platform that tracks the locations of personal protective equipment (PPE), vaccines and healthcare supplies used in caring for COVID-19 patients and the delivery of vaccines. With this solution, Vodafone Business manages the supply chain for third-party providers. In other cases, companies may already offer IoT-based devices, such as sensors or connected coo