Definition Health has announced that part of its total digital surgical solution, initially developed for patients in the NHS and private hospital sector, is now being deployed in The Gambia.
Its LifeBox pre-operative health assessment (ePOA) app is now being used to enable remote care of orthopaedic patients and provide Gambian clinical teams with remote assistance from medics in the UK to help them in diagnosis and treatment. It is the first national virtual fracture clinic in the world to run off a single digital platform and already data is showing that it will prevent 50% of patients having to travel long distances for treatment.
In March 2022, Dr Rosie Scott, a consultant radiologist, and co-founder of Definition Health, volunteered in the Gambia, as part of the Gam Med Charity (Gambia Medical UK Partnership) to train local medics on the LifeBox ePOA. The Gambia lies in West Africa and is the smallest country within mainland Africa, with a population of 2.1 million people. By western standards healthcare provision is extremely limited. Most secondary healthcare is provided in the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) in the capital, Banjul.
In The Gambia, many patients with injuries use traditional medicine and healers. Fractures are often bound with sticks which result in malunion or non-union leading to significant permanent deformity. The resulting deformities would pose a significant orthopaedic challenge to reconstruct the limb in the western world, let alone in The Gambia. Adding to this challenge, many patients will travel over 100 miles to EFSTH with these injuries without an initial consultation or appointment – often leading to overwhelmed clinics, delayed treatment and in many cases, disappointment for patients.
In 2018, Dr Kebba Marenah was employed as the country’s first Gambian orthopaedic consultant. He completed his medical training in the UK, including his orthopaedic registrar training in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (now known as University Hospitals Sussex). Dr Marenah led the orthopaedic arm of the West African College of Surgeons Outreach programme to the Gambia. He, along with Mr James Gibbs and...READ MORE
Economic Profile - As of late 2010, Brazil’s economy is the largest of Latin America, the second largest in the Americas (after the U.S.) and among the ten largest in the...
Japan, located in Northeast Asia, is an archipelago set between the Sea of Japan to the west and the Pacif Ocean to the east. It shares no contiguous land borders with an...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and UN partners have released the first progress report for the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. The report highlights efforts to improve...
Equity is a value in the Danish healthcare system, and healthcare is an important part of its welfare system, resulting in a heavily financed public funds system, experie...
Definition Health has announced that part of its total digital surgical solution, initially developed for patients in the NHS and private hospital sector, is now being de...
A virtual marketplace leading your business into the future
