'The high cost of diagnosis, medical equipment and software are the many obsta cles to the penetration of telemedicine in Burundi,' she added.
Speaking at a workshop to look into the ways and means to popularize telemedicine that focused on access to health cares for rural populations, Mrs Nibigira also stressed the bad quality of the phone network and the lack of electricity as obstacles to telemedicine.
'...it would be good for rural populations, which do not still have easy access to a doctor or health technician, to be taken into consideration in this programme,' she added.
Mrs Nibigira said the Burundi government would facilitate conditions needed to develop telemedicine.
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Quelle/Source: Afrique en Ligue, 10.09.2010
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