Re: [Health] Gnuhealth news from Laos

[Martin Sauter]

Hi Bounmy

This is really good news!

Please let me introduce myself: I'm a member of a Swiss NGO called Swiss Laos Hospital Project (www.swisslaos.ch - Website is in German only). We have partnerships with a dozen hospitals in Laos, with a focus on gynecology, obstetrics and pediatrics plus general medecine. Our founder Dr. Urs Lauper startet the project 15 years ago in the Mother and Child Hospital in Vientiane.

Together with my wife (who is a doctor) I visited Laos in January for the first time. Since I'm no doctor but an IT consultant I tried to learn more about the needs in the IT field. Many of the doctors I spoke to in Vientiane and Muang Kham expressed their interest in a hospital information system. I then did some reasearch and found GNU Health, which made a good impression on me.

So I'm very happy to hear that your pilot in the Centre of Medical Rehabilitation was successful and that the Ministry of Health plans to roll out GNU Health in some mayor hospitals of your country. I would be very much interested to learn more about this project, since we are planning another visit in Phonsavan and Muang Kham next year    .

Best regards
Martin Sauter
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bounmy Sihaphom <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Subject: [Health] (no subject)
To: General discussion and help <address@hidden>

Hi Luis and Gnuhealth community!
We are very pleased to announce that on Monday, November 17,2014 at
CMR(Centre of Medical Rehabilitation) , Dr. Bounkong Sihavong , the
Deputy Minister of LPDR Ministry of Health verbally announced ,
GNUHealth can be implemented in Mahosoth, Setha, 103 and 150
Hospitals(the 4 biggest Hospitals in Laos) in a very near future.
After the Minister and delegates from these hospitals took a tour at CMR
where the GNUhealth pilot project is being conducted  and successfully
implemented by Calat with the help of course by Luis and everyone at GNU
community.
In the near future, we properly need more help and some of you might be
invited to the site in Laos.

We are just want to share this great news with everyone.Thanks again for
your help.

Best Regards;

Bounmy Sihaphom

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