ChildLife signs MoU with Italian hospital.

KARACHI -- MoU has been signed between Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Italy and ChildLife Foundation. The Consulate of Italy, the Istituto Giannina Gaslini, largest pediatric care hospital in Northern Italy and ChildLife Foundation are promoting an important collaboration in the field of children health care with the objective of saving lives through better use of pediatric emergency rooms and telemedicine services.

'Following an adopt-and-operate model, the objective of the collaboration is to modernize and manage children's ERs of government tertiary care hospitals by building capacity of the doctors, where the sickest and poorest children can access quality care 24/7', added Dr. Ahson Rabbani, CEO of ChildLife Foundation. In particular, ChildLife and Gaslini have identified a series of projects aimed at strengthening children's healthcare. They plan to collaborate on the following initiatives:

1. Training - Jointly develop and conduct training courses for health professionals. Approximately 500 doctors will be trained over the next three years.

2. Telemedicine - Sharing best practices of telemedicine by both parties to improve and expand their respective Telemedicine network.

In this regard an MoU signing ceremony followed by dinner was hosted last night in Karachi by Sohail Tabba, Founding Trustee of ChildLife Foundation. 'We are very proud that the telemedicine model which we started from Sindh will not only be...