Health sector seeks digital expertise

As China steps up its commitment to helping Africa tackle its disease burden through the Health Silk Road, an African expert has called for intensified cooperation in digital health solutions and telemedicine as a potential game-changer, by utilising China's rapid development in digital technology.

- By EDITH MUTETHYA

Paul Frimpong, the executive director and a senior research fellow at the Ghana-based Africa-China Centre for Policy and Advisory, said that by pairing China's advanced digital health technologies with Africa's expanding connectivity and growing local medical expertise, the two sides could significantly deepen cooperation to benefit millions of patients in the continent.

Frimpong said China's resolve for technological innovation and international cooperation provides the potential and opportunity for transformation of the health sector in African countries.