Is telemedicine the panacea for Sub-Saharan Africa's medical nightmare?

Authors:
Victor W. A. Mbarika
Affiliations:
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Venue:
Communications of the ACM - Has the Internet become indispensable?
Year:
2004

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Abstract

"Ever since my eye swelled up, I've gone to church to pray for a cure...I always knew He would send a way to make me better---I just didn't know it was going to be from London," says Anna Mobutsu, a 23-year-old farm laborer, who cannot imagine journeying farther than a bus ride from her home in the small African town of Nelspruit. An illiterate single parent with a 7-year-old and an elderly mother to support on about $56 a month, Anna does not even own a TV to introduce her to a world beyond her own. "But this afternoon I went to London" [2].