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MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
SAARC telemedicine network
Switch off The South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation, (SAARC), created as an expression of the region’s collective decision to evolve a regional cooperative framework received a major impetus during the 14th SAARC Summit held in New Delhi in April 2007. The preparatory work for a pilot project connecting one/two hospitals in each of the SAARC countries with 3-4 Super Speciality hospitals in India by the end of this year has started. The Super Specialty hospitals in India include the AIIMS, New Delhi; SGPGIMS, Lucknow; PGIMER Chandigarh and the CARE Hospital, Hyderabad. It is being developed as an exemplary model for implementing projects at the regional level. It has immense potential to expand the scope of regional cooperation to other ICT enabled areas such as education, business process outsourcing and mass communication.
Pan-African e network project
The Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India is implementing this project through Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd. (TCIL), which has been designated as implementing agency, to establish a VSAT based Tele-Medicine and Tele-Education infrastructure for African Countries in 53 nations of the African Union by a satellite and fiber optic network that would provide effective Tele-Education, Tele-Medicine, Internet, Videoconferencing and VoIP services and also support e-Governance, e-Commerce, infotainment, resource mapping and meteorological services. Ten super specialty hospitals in India have been identified to provide telehealth services to 53 remote African hospitals.