In an effort to ensure that a functional health system exist in the Kingdom of Eswatini, the government through the Ministry of Health has developed a centralised robust Client Management Information System (CMIS). The purpose of the CMIS is for the systematic collection of clinical service data, storage, processing, analysis and action-oriented reporting, dissemination and use of quality information for improved health care provision, patient management and decision making. To realise the benefits of the system, the basic requirement is that it needs to be accessible to all of the country’s health facilities and centers. To assist the government’s efforts in proving better health care services, the Eswatini Communications Commission, through the Universal Service Obligation Fund, initiated a project to connect fourty five (45) rural health facilities and centers around the country to the centralised platform. The wireless broadband connectivity project for health centers, provides connection speeds of between 20 and 50 mbps to the centralised CMIS platform for all the health centers and is deployed using the latest wireless technologies. In addition, the project also covers all adjacent public service centers to the health facilities.

https://www.esccom.org.sz/universalservice//Universal_Service_Strategy.pdf

• Kingdom of Eswatini

• Remote and rural communities
• Other public services can use the network to deliver public services to citizens

Connectivity can be done in all the health facilities countrywide including private heath centers in order to achieve an effectively functional health management system.

the project is supporting an initiative already run and managed by Government and this way the network will be properly maintained and the health system is already set up and that way it will not be a white elephant.

This project is in line with the WSISI action linesC1 , C2 and C3 and is also associated with SDG's 1,2,3,4 and 5.