Metro Desk
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid along with others at the inaugural ceremony of maritime VSATs named ‘SATMED’ at a floating hospital ship at Dewanganj of Jamalpur recently.-sun photo
The first state-of-the-art maritime very-small-aperture terminals (VSATs) named ‘SATMED’, an e-health platform, were launched on three floating hospital ships of ‘FRIENDSHIP’ in Bangladesh recently.
The three hospital ships are Emirates Friendship Hospital, Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital and Rongdhonu Friendship (Former Rainbow Warrior II) Hospital, says a press release.
SES SA (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), a world-leading satellite operator, along with the technical assistance of Square Informatix (Bangladesh) Ltd cooperated FRIENDSHIP, a non-governmental organisation, to deploy the VSATs on the ships.
Marc Elvinger, chairman of FRIENDSHIP, Luxembourg, Runa Khan, founder and executive director of FRIENDSHIP in Bangladesh, Gerhard Bethscheider, managing director of SES TechCom Services, among others, were present in the inauguration ceremony.
SATMED, the newly deployed satellite-based e-health platform, will enable FRIENDSHIP to establish communications with national and international doctors from remote areas.
It will provide medical counselling to marginalised communities through telemedicine and to exchange medical knowledge with local doctors.
The project is funded by the Luxembourg Government and implemented in cooperation with SES TechcCom Services and e-Medical Communication (eMC).
SATMED is an IT enabled cloud infrastructure accessible around the globe that facilitates data exchanges between professionals and medical frameworks such as electronic medical records and teleradiology systems.
The platform is an open, flexible and affordable solution that perfectly fits SES’s range of satellite based e-activities.
At the end of the inauguration ceremony, two European doctors consulted with patients from the remote island known as ‘chars’ through teleconferencing directly from Europe.
The three hospital ships are Emirates Friendship Hospital, Lifebuoy Friendship Hospital and Rongdhonu Friendship (Former Rainbow Warrior II) Hospital, says a press release.
SES SA (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), a world-leading satellite operator, along with the technical assistance of Square Informatix (Bangladesh) Ltd cooperated FRIENDSHIP, a non-governmental organisation, to deploy the VSATs on the ships.
