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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"The [LAMB] Telemedicine link adds another dimension to our ability to provide high quality medical care in a rural location in Bangladesh. In particular, it provides access to consultants who can give opinions on difficult cases in which we lack expertise locally. The commonest example for us is a second opinion on an X-ray. However, other examples include complex haematological and rheumatological cases." Director of LAMB Hospital, Bangladesh |