Member of Parliament Robin Farlay has said the implementation of an effective and well coordinated E- Health programme in Sierra Leone would help as a tool in achieving health related issues. The MP has just returned from an advocacy for the development of e-health in ECOWAS member states held in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso from the 7-8 September, 2009.
Speaking to Journalists yesterday at the conference room of Parliament Building he stated that the e-health workshop was organized by the West African Health Organization (WAHO) and the e-health is the compiling of information and communication technology and health.
He explained that the idea of E-Health came in to being as a result of the brain drain and lack of trained and qualified human resource health professionals in third world countries. Hon. Farlay said the E-Health has been seen as a supporting system to the countries current National Health System.
He however stated that the benefit of the programme included quality procedure and helps to bring together the various players of the health system through improved storage, consultation, sharing and dissemination of information and the retrieval of real time and recorded information in various forms. Hon. Farlay disclosed that the specific recommendations he made for Sierra Leone was to develop an E-Health National Policy.
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