IN response to the national health emergency declaration by President Rodrigo Duterte because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, a free humanitarian health care service through high technology called telemedicine is being prepared by the of League of Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Advocates of the Philippines (LeaDCAP) for the use of medical doctors nationwide. This is in collaboration with leading healthcare groups of medical professionals, particularly the Philippine Medical Association (PMA).

LeaDCAP Vice President Dr. Leo Olarte, who is also the past president of the PMA, shared with me their mission in helping ease up the huge number of patients flocking our overwhelmed hospitals and clinics by using the state-of-the-art system called Digital Online Consultation for our People’s Healthcare (DOCPH). Such unified response, he relayed, also aims to reach out to patients with other illnesses (non-Covid-19) during the quarantine period, when everybody seems to be focused only on the battle against an invisible virus.

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