Rwanda: Broadband Expansion Will Widen Health Coverage - Kagame

Posted to the web 5 August 2008 Bellagio President Paul Kagame said on Monday that the ongoing program to wire up Rwanda will ease health service delivery for its people - 'the vast majority' of who live in rural areas, RNA reports. "The increased bandwidth will allow us to send digital radiology images from district hospitals to experts in our capital Kigali, and outside the country", Kagame told an E-Health Conference in Italy. "Given that the overwhelming majority of our population lives in rural areas, this will allow many more patients to easily secure specialist opinion at significantly reduced cost." The month-long conference that has been running from July 13 to August 08 in Bellagio Italy, is organized by the Rockefeller Foundation. Delegates have been discussing accelerating innovative applications of emerging... [read full story]