KARACHI: A Saudi-Pakistani online education organization will start training more than 1,500 Afghan doctors as the program received financial support from the Islamic Development Bank.
Based in Karachi, the EduCast platform is a joint venture run by health professionals in Pakistan and Pakistani expats in Saudi Arabia. It was established in 2016 and had been providing services in Pakistan, Yemen, and to Hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia.
For the platform’s eDoctors program, the Islamic Development Bank has recently approved $180,000 under its technical assistance grant for establishing innovative online health education centers in Afghanistan, where the health system is on the brink of collapse.
Telehealth services in Afghanistan
“EduCast platform has been awarded grant assistance from the IsDB for the Afghanistan Medical Education development program and provides online specialist opinion services to doctors in six Afghan provinces,” founder and CEO of EduCast, Abdullah Butt, told Arab News.
EduCast is already providing services in Afghanistan, where since last year, the platform has been operating a teleconsultation with doctors at the Shefajo Hospital for children and women in Kabul.
The latest program aims to train and certify around 1,500 Afghan doctors through doctor-to-doctor virtual seminars and online consultation and provide in-person training at health institutions in Pakistan.
