Galaxy Backbone has provided internet connectivity for e-health services at Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH) in Gombe and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Teaching Hospital in Bauchi, an official said Wednesday.
Aliyu Musa, the company’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, disclosed this at the 101st regular meeting of Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and Managing Directors (MDs) of Nigeria’s tertiary hospitals in Yola.
Galaxy Backbone is an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services provider under the supervision of Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.
Musa said Galaxy Backbone’s intervention helps to provide efficiency in service delivery for easy payment and data security for healthcare.
“This service makes patients to spend less time at the hospitals, provides easy access to patient’s record during emergencies from any location and virtual consultation, among others,” he said.
Prof. Jibrin Yusuf, CMD of ATBU Teaching Hospital, confirmed that their services have now changed from manual to automatic through the usage of internet services for effective service delivery.
“The coming of Galaxy Backbone to our hospital has changed the way we see our patients in terms of accessing service, making appointments, and payment is very fast, especially in terms of securing our data for confidentiality.
“Now, we do not have network challenges like before,” he said, assuring of continuous provision of effective service for the patients with Galaxy Vsat.
Dr. Pokop Bupwatda, the CMD of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), and Prof. Uzoma Agwu of David Umahi University Teaching Hospital also expressed the need to key into the services of Galaxy Backbone in their respective hospitals.
“I have testimony of Galaxy Backbone services, especially in terms of internet and getting data secured.
“The technology now is making life easy and making things easy for patients and staff themselves, as well as an ease of doing business,” he said, adding that the new development would also improve internally-generated revenue for the hospital.
