Join us 1:00 - 2:15PM for presentations from the USFQ Telehealth Team.
The Telehealth Program is a Covid-19 community outreach program implemented by teachers, alumni and students from different schools of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, the Ministry of Public Health in Ecuador (MOH) and vulnerable patients during the Covid-19 pandemic (March 23, 2020 – March, 2021). The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the groups most vulnerable to developing Covid-19 and with the highest mortality rate among infected individuals are the elderly population and people suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Considering the risk of contagion in this vulnerable population in the rural sector of Pichincha, the USFQ designed the Telehealth Program for chronic patients of rural communities in the Pichincha province. Alumni, students and teachers from the schools of Medicine, Psychology, Nutrition, and Microbiology participated as volunteers of the program in addition to physicians from the first-level health centers of the MOH. The aims of the program were to give clinical attention by phone calls in order to improve healthy lifestyles mainly in terms of diet and physical activity, improve adherence to treatment of chronic pathologies, provide nutritional and psychological support, and prevent the spread of Covid-19. Face visors were delivered to patients and health workers, and free SARS-CoV2 RT-PCR tests were carried out, which were processed by the Microbiology laboratory of USFQ. This program was developed with a protocol designed for this purpose, which follows the guidelines of the WHO and the MOH.
 Gustavo Muñoz S.
Third Year Medical Student |
 Monserrate Vasconez
Medical doctor |
Camila Aulestia B.
Psychology undergraduate |
Teaching Technicia |
 Emilia Velástegui
Nutrition |
