Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Empowered Female Healthcare Professionals, Empowered Pakistan


Description

Sehat Kahani, a TeleHealth based social enterprise, was founded by two female doctors, Dr Sara Khurram and Dr Iffat Zafar Aga, who understood that the gap between health providers and low income communities could only be bridged if women in the medical field were empowered to provide service to those who needed it. Sehat Kahani aims to create quality health care solutions for communities where access to quality and affordable health care services is still a dream, using cost effective ICT enabled solutions. Hence Sehat Kahani caters to a wide range of audience including -female medical doctors who are unable to continue their services due to cultural and social restrictions after getting married and having kids -underpaid and underemployed female nurses and CHWs within rural communities and urban slums -low income women and families who do not have access to quality healthcare.

Project website

http://www.sehatkahani.com


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being
  • Goal 5: Gender equality

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Asia and Pacific

Status

Completed

Start date

2017

End date

2020


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Women
  • The unemployed
  • The poor

WSIS values promotion

Sehat Kahani aims to democratize healthcare by empowering female healthcare providers to deliver technology based healthcare services.


Entity name

Community Innovation Hub - Sehat Kahani

Entity country—type

Pakistan Private Sector

Entity website

http://www.sehatkahani.com