E-health initiative welcome

TECHNOLOGY based health education is a trend which holds much possibility in Bangladesh. In recent times, foreign donors, private and public sectors have gotten involved in this process. A three and a half month project titled eHealth Pilot Programme found that more people followed advice of the field-level health assistants on health and family planning issues after they were taught the information using netbooks equipped with a eToolkit and video materials.
From implementing better family planning methods, understanding maternal health to decreasing child mortality have been some of the accomplishments of the health sector in the last decade. With the new interventions of etoolkit and netbooks the process of health education may progress at a better rate.
Finding funding and replicating the pilot programmes which worked with ehealth may be issues that we need to address. Purchasing netbooks and other costs related to a project of this nature such as capacity building of trainers and following best practices are some of the barriers we need to overcome.
To accomplish a better success rate of health education around the nation more private and public bodies need to come forth. It is not an intervention that can only happen with a few, and a united effort will be more efficient so that these pilot programmes become full-fledged projects and do not remain as one-off efforts.