{"id":23621,"date":"2022-01-20T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/?p=23621"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:26:45","slug":"servicio-de-telesalud-de-bolivia-se-extendio-a-118-nuevos-municipios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/comunidades-conectadas\/servicio-de-telesalud-de-bolivia-se-extendio-a-118-nuevos-municipios\/","title":{"rendered":"Telehealth service in Bolivia extended to 118 new municipalities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In order to care for COVID-19 patients in remote areas, the Ministry of Health and Sports announced the expansion of the Telehealth Service to 118 municipalities, thanks to the satellite connection.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Thanks to an agreement between the Ministry of Health, the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) and the National Telecommunications Company (ENTEL), the Government of Bolivia will guarantee access to medical care through the "Telehealth Project for Bolivia" to 118 municipalities with reduced budgets in Health.<\/p>

Health Minister Jeyson Auza explained that the government is seeking to strengthen remote medical care, especially during the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections that is occurring at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cToday we are in this important agreement signing together with ENTEL, the ABE because we are democratizing health, we have this Telehealth equipment in more than 350 establishments throughout the country, but it was worrying that 118 municipalities do not have this service that It consists in that each one of the specialists who are in the cities, will be able to provide care in all these establishments\u201d, explained Auza.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Likewise, the minister explained that virtual patient care must continue to be strengthened in the country, so that the entire population has access to this type of service.<\/p>

For his part, Iv\u00e1n Zambrana, executive general director of the ABE, explained that the satellite connection guarantees the connectivity of the telehealth program in all the municipalities that are part of it. \u201cThe life and health of Bolivians who live in remote areas matters and has the same value as the life of any Bolivian in any other point of our geography, this system that has been around for a few years and that today its operation is guaranteed for all in 2022, the reality of health in remote places has changed\u201d, he explained.<\/p>

As for the attention lines, the Ministry of Health enabled the free line 800-10-1104, for teleinterconsultations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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https:\/\/www.minsalud.gob.bo\/6409-gobierno-garantiza-acceso-a-atenciones-medicas-mediante-telesalud-a-118-municipios-con-presupuestos-reducidos<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Con el prop\u00f3sito de atender a pacientes COVID-19 en zonas remotas, el Ministerio de Salud y Deportes, anunci\u00f3 la ampliaci\u00f3n del Servicio de Telesalud a 118 municipios, gracias a la conexi\u00f3n satelital. Gracias a un convenio entre Minsalud, la Agencia Boliviana Espacial (ABE) y la Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (ENTEL), el Gobierno de Bolivia garantizar\u00e1 el acceso a atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica a trav\u00e9s \u201cProyecto Telesalud para Bolivia\u201d, a 118 municipios con presupuesto reducido en salud. El ministro de salud Jeyson Auza, explic\u00f3 que el gobierno busca fortalecer la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica a distancia, especialmente durante la cuarta ola de contagios de COVID-19 que se esta presentando en este inicio de a\u00f1o. \u201cHoy estamos en esta firma de convenio tan importante junto con ENTEL, la ABE porque estamos democratizando la salud, nosotros tenemos este equipamiento de Telesalud en m\u00e1s de 350 establecimientos en todo el pa\u00eds, pero era preocupante que 118 municipios no cuenten con este servicio que consiste en que cada uno de los especialistas que est\u00e1n en las ciudades, podr\u00e1n brindar atenci\u00f3n en todos estos establecimientos\u201d, explic\u00f3 Auza. Asimismo, el ministro explic\u00f3 que la atenci\u00f3n virtual de pacientes se debe seguir fortaleciendo en el pa\u00eds, para que toda la poblaci\u00f3n tenga acceso a este tipo de servicios. Por su parte, Iv\u00e1n Zambrana director general ejecutivo de la ABE, explic\u00f3 que la conexi\u00f3n satelital garantiza la conectividad del programa de telesalud en todos los municipios que forman parte del mismo. \u201cLa vida y la salud de los bolivianos que viven en \u00e1reas alejadas importa y tiene el mismo valor que la vida de cualquier boliviano en cualquier otro punto de nuestra geograf\u00eda, este sistema que ya lleva unos a\u00f1os y que hoy se garantiza su funcionamiento por todo el 2022, ha cambiado la realidad de la salud en sitios alejados\u201d, explic\u00f3. En cuanto a las l\u00edneas de atenci\u00f3n, el Minsalud habilit\u00f3 la l\u00ednea gratuita 800-10-1104, para teleinterconsultas. BIBLIOGRAF\u00cdA MINSALUD https:\/\/www.minsalud.gob.bo\/6409-gobierno-garantiza-acceso-a-atenciones-medicas-mediante-telesalud-a-118-municipios-con-presupuestos-reducidos<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,160,3394,3396],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-23621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunidades-conectadas","category-noticias","category-redes-sociales","category-uso-de-plataformas-digitales","tag-noticias"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saluddigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}