Assisting poor sick and disabled people in the developing world
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Welcome to the Swinfen Charitable Trust Website
The Swinfen Charitable Trust was set up by Lord and Lady Swinfen in 1998, with the aim of assisting poor, sick and disabled people in the developing world. The Trust's policy is to do this by establishing telemedicine links between hospital-based practitioners in the developing world and expert medical and surgical specialists who generously give free advice via the Internet
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"We have been able to reassure patients that they are getting the most appropriate care and / or advise them that spending their life's savings on 'better treatment' either within Bangladesh or in India will not improve the outcome. Most of the patients for whom we have sent telemedicine referrals have been inpatients. In this situation speed of response is important. The Autorouter has helped here." |