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Monday, March 26, 2007
BANGALORE: Cisco would shortly be providing former cricketer Imran Khan’s Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center (SKMCH&RC) in Pakistan, with a “medical grade network,” thanks to the initiative of employees of Indian and Pakistani origin at the company.
While Cisco has provided a lot of worldwide hospitals for this type of network, in the case of SKMCH, this is being provided as part of the company’s “Social Innovation services” or corporate social responsibility model.
The medical grade network would enable the public to access the Center’s facilities via a virtual hospital and interact with leading cancer research centers across the world.
Under the agreement, Cisco will provide the products, services and expertise to build a medical grade network and would upgrade the existing system at the hospital to connect the hospital’s walk-in clinics at Peshawar and Karachi and remote areas such as Skardu and Mianwali.
Imran Khan, who started the SKMCH &RC in memory of his mother in 1992, visited the Cisco office in Bangalore a few weeks ago, to discuss the project nitty-gritty with the company.
Elaborating on the project, a Cisco spokesman said that the aim of the project was to work on prevention of cancer using technology. “This is the first hospital that Cisco has helped connect under its Social Innovation Services. The focus is to empower local communities in developing and emerging markets using technology.”
He added that Cisco is in talks with a few Cancer hospitals in India to explore a similar network deployment.
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