Buenos Aires, April 2022. EXO announced an agreement with the Ministry of Health of the province of Jujuy to loan a Mobile Diagnostic Centre that will be used for the medical tour that will be carried out on foot and on horseback in May in the aboriginal communities of Molulo, El Durazno and Loma Larga, as well as by the health agents of the communities of Molulo and El Durazno, within the framework of the project for remote and limited accessibility regions of the province "Red de Atención Primaria de la Salud (APS) Digital Tilcara" (Tilcara Digital Primary Health Care Network).
The initiative was carried out through EXO's Social Responsibility and Sustainability (RSS) area, which provided a Mobile Diagnostic Centre - CDM, which allows to perform a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG); PANI, Non Invasive Blood Pressure; SpO2, Oximetry, Blood Oxygen Saturation; and TEMP, Surface Temperature. This equipment can be manipulated by nursing and medical staff, providing the possibility, if required, of videoconferencing with a specialist, the latter receiving all the information collected on any computer or mobile device in real time or asynchronously.
The signing of the agreement was attended by the Jujuy Minister of Health, Antonio Buljubasich.
"Together with the technology company EXO, we signed an agreement for the loan of the Mobile Diagnostic Centre that will be used from May, starting with the medical tour from Tilcara to Molulo, El Durazno and Loma Larga," explained Jujuy's Minister of Health, Antonio Buljubasich.
Background
This proposal proposes to develop the Tilcara Digital Primary Health Care (PHC) Network in the Tilcara Programme Area, as primary care providers, in remote regions of the province with limited accessibility, promoting new health-disease management processes that are technologically supported and address the promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of the population in a comprehensive and networked manner.
It is noteworthy that this network is made up of institutions with a territorial base in Tilcara, such as the Tilcara Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the province of Jujuy and the National University of Jujuy, through the Digital Health Area of the School of Health and the Rodolfo Kusch Institute, and third sector and private sector actors such as the Fundación Aprendiendo Bajo la Cruz del Sur and the company EXO -Soluciones Tecnológicas, always with the support and participation of the aboriginal communities of the area, in particular the Aboriginal Community of Molulo and the Aboriginal Community of El Durazno.
University training
EXO also held a Digital Health and Technology Training for Nursing "Applied Telemedicine: Mobile Diagnostic Centre (CDM)" at the National University of Jujuy. The conference was organised by Dr. Paz Bossio, referent of the Digital Health and Legal Tech Area of the School of Health Sciences, in articulation with Lic. Carlos Ortiz, Coordinator of the nursing career of the School of Health Sciences. There, with more than 40 participants, including nurses, nursing students and teachers, a simulation of medical tests was carried out on a volunteer nursing student from the audience as a live videoconference transmitting the tests and showing the patient to the (simulated) doctor present in another part of the auditorium, away from the equipment.
Fernando González at the training held at the National University of Jujuy.
Fernando González, EXO's Social Responsibility and Sustainability Manager, said that "in this April project EXO trained new health workers in the use of the CDM and continues to provide equipment to be used by community health workers and professional staff who carry out Medical Tours in these remote areas, as in the next tour in May".
EXO trained health workers and doctors over several days.
For her part, Magdalena Zurita, a member of the EXO team, highlighted the performance of the CDMs for their practicality, ease of operation and highlighted their current operation in places such as Antarctica, Mozambique, Bragado, Jujuy, Bariloche, SAME and Favaloro, among others.