The news was announced the day before by President Nayib Bukele in a meeting with the main executives of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), which contributed 77 million dollars to carry out this project.

According to the president, the initiative aims to improve equipment and hospitals, as part of the Health System reform.

Using a cell phone call, the patient will be consulted and if he/she can be diagnosed, the doctor gives him/her the prescription, then he/she goes to the pharmacy, the code appears in the pharmacy and the medicine is there,” Bukele said.

This project will also make it possible to make appointments with specialists and improve the “quality of service to the people”, according to the Salvadoran president.

Bukele explained to CAF’s president, Sergio Díaz Granados, and other authorities of the institution, as well as members of the Salvadoran government, that this initiative will completely change healthcare in El Salvador.

The program, called “Implementation of a Telemedicine System in El Salvador”, has already been implemented and financed on an experimental basis at the El Salvador hospital, where a network of pharmacies and the performance of laboratory tests were part of the pilot tests.

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