[SatNews] SES (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and SES Techcom Services have announced that their innovative eHealth platform—SATMED—has been deployed to improve childbirth healthcare at the Maternité Hospital in Ahozonnoude, Benin.
Using SES’s satellite Internet connectivity, the SATMED platform operates as a remote consultation and monitoring tool to provide effective communications between the maternity hospital in Ahozonnoude, the hospital in capital Cotonou and a third hospital unit in Allada. Training for medical and hospital support staff on how to use and maintain the SATMED equipment has been provided, and support to people in the field will continue.
In Benin, the eHealth system provides the only effective communication link between the three units, since the routes are often inaccessible due to flooding during the rainy season. Additional remote training is to be delivered online, enabling midwives and health workers in training to have their performance monitored and evaluated by an assigned physician, improving healthcare at a local, regional and national scale.