Liquid Telecom to provide internet to local Kenyan hospital

St. Francis Community Hospital has partnered with Liquid Telecom Kenya to offer internet services to ensure the hospital which is now a Teleradiology technology approved to cut on waiting times and costs for X-rays and CT scans by getting real-time expert diagnoses from images.

The Nairobi based hospital goal is to provide efficient, quality, medically accurate, timely and up-to-date advanced radiology and imaging services at a lower cost to its clientele at a time when radiology specialists are expensive to employ and their time is limited.

in a statement, Dr David Kamau, the hospital’s Medical Officer in-charge concurred with, further stating, “before we introduced Teleradiology at the hospital, clients were referred to radiologists with images for interpretation and reporting. Patients would then come back with results, for treatment, but this was expensive and time-consuming. Now, the hospital is able to do CT scans and X-rays, send them to a radiologist remotely and get feedback in real time without having to employ the radiologists on a full-time basis.”

Full-time radiologists typically cost over Sh500,000 a month to employ, whereas contracting radiologist per image via Teleradiology costs around half as much and is far more efficient for the radiologists too.

“Facilitating such a marked upgrading in medical services aligns firmly with our mission of transforming lives through delivering the highest quality of internet,” said Adil Youssefi, CEO of Liquid Telecom Kenya. “New technologies and new models of care are reshaping the way health experts engage with their colleagues and patients, and offering cost effective solutions that are able to deliver far more while managing limited resources.”

“Facilitating such a marked upgrading in medical services aligns firmly with our mission of transforming lives through delivering the highest quality of internet. New technologies and new models of care are reshaping the way health experts engage with their colleagues and patients, and offering cost effective solutions that are able to deliver far more while managing limited resources.”

Adil Youssefi, CEO of Liquid Telecom Kenya

The hospital invested in high quality 16 slice CT scanner machine and installed a high-speed fibre optic network from Liquid Telecom Kenya.

“Having this kind of service in the hospital requires an uninterrupted Internet connection 24 hours a day. With the Liquid Telecom fibre connection, we have an uptime of 99%,” said Fred Mumo the hospital’s IT Manager.

Plans are also underway to provide St. Francis Community Hospital with Liquid Telecom’s cloud-based IT services that will enable it to adopt a Hospital Management System HMS that will further improve productivity and efficiency within the hospital