Aid organisations using technology to help Syrian refugees in the Middle East
IT facilitates healthcare in numerous ways. SMS is commonly used to notify refugees to attend clinics for health checks or to receive vaccinations to help avoid outbreaks of diseases such polio. Currently under consideration in Lebanon is a project to develop digital medical records for refugees or displaced people that can be downloaded to their personal devices to be taken with them if they leave the country.
At WHO in Jordan, a national programme of public health surveillance was set up to monitor the epidemiology of priority public health diseases, conditions and events. The programme uses mobile technology to enable reporting of information in real time from 267 primary and secondary care facilities across the country.
This picture shows public health surveillance training taking place in Aqaba Governorate, Jordan.