position:deputy director-general for strategic health programmes

  • Mobile technology ’can play role in healthcare’ - Business LIVE
    http://www.businesslive.co.za/incoming/2011/06/06/mobile-technology-can-play-role-in-healthcare

    SA’s most urgent health problems could be more efficiently tackled by up-scaling the usage of mobile technologies by those working in the health system, according to Yogan Pillay, deputy director-general for the Department of Health’s strategic health programmes, but, he said, the country did not need more pilot projects.
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    “We know by now what works and what doesn’t. It is time we build on that,”
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    “The Themba Lethu clinic in Johannesburg, for instance, sends out text messages to remind HIV patients, including moms and pregnant women, about appointments and medication,” he explained.
    “The number of missed appointments between 2007 and 2011 has dropped from 15% to 7%. The same counts for TB patients.”

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