| MINTEL unvails SaludEc app to the country - 23/03/2020 |
| Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society (Mintel) |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | The Americas | Ecuador |
| In order to help care for the health of citizens in Ecuador, in the face of possible coronavirus symptoms, the Ministry of Telecommunications and the Information Society (Mintel), in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) developed a free digital application (App), called “SaludEc”. It is available for Android and iOS. It is aimed at meeting the following objectives: • Assess the symptoms of citizens to assume or rule out cases of coronavirus. • Register citizens to send official information through digital channels. • Decongest channel 171 (Public Health call center) and deliver timely information. • Constitute itself as a complementary Telemedicine channel to those already established. • To be an access channel for scheduling medical appointments in the first level health centers of the Ministry of Public Health in specialties not related to the Coronavirus such as: General Medicine, Psychology, Obstetrics and Dentistry. |
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