As of March 2020, the Virtual Doctors service is in use by 135 users in 140 health facilities across 23 districts, and we are hoping to expand to a total number of 200 sites in Zambia by the end of 2020! We are the largest non commercial telemedicine provider in Zambia.
At the end of 2018 we launched a pilot in Malawi and have since secured a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Health, which will dictate the next stage of this expansion of our service.
We are a UK-based charity with a Zambian operation. We use a Smartphone App to connect isolated health centres in rural Zambia with volunteer doctors, based predominantly in the UK.
The volunteer doctors offer advice to diagnose conditions, treat patients and prescribe medicine. This assists and empowers the Zambian health workers, and even helps saves lives. The App also reduces the number of hospital referrals that would incur long, arduous journeys and unmanageable expense.
To help improve the local primary healthcare in some of the most remote and impoverished areas of sub-Saharan Africa. We believe this model could be adopted across Africa, making a significant impact on healthcare throughout the region and beyond.
Search for Clinic Job Vacancies