German Pathologist, Dr. Gerhard Stauch, is on a voluntary mission in Samoa to help the Pathology laboratory of the National Health Services in building up a Tele-Pathology System.
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Pathology deals mainly with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue and body cytology for diagnostic purposes.
Based on the results, the doctors are able to provide a proper diagnosis and further treatment for a patient. Because Samoa has no Pathologist on hand, all specimen are sent overseas. This is costly and there is a delay in getting the results.
The Tele-Pathology project aims to involve experts around the globe to provide a diagnostic service on a voluntary base via the internet. To make it possible the specimen has to be prepared locally and images have to be submitted to the international experts by uploading them to a special website with limited accessibility.
Dr. Gerhard is in Samoa until the beginning of December to conduct the 1st Phase of the project.
In this phase all opportunities will be observed and the training of the local pathology lab staff will be carried out. The Head of the Pathology Laboratory, Dr. Emmanuel Chan Chui, is looking forward to a fruitful collaboration.
“The project is highly important because the Tele-Pathology will give us the tool to deliver in a short time test results whether a body tissue is a malignant tumor or not. We all know the time issue in regards to cancer,” said Dr. Chan Chui.
After returning to his home country Germany Dr. Gerhard will continue training sessions over the Internet. In a second Phase he is planning to return to Samoa for further training sessions and the possibility to expand the project to other Tele-Medicine fields at NHS.
The Tele-Pathology project is under the support of the German S.E.S (Senior Expert Service), the Foundation of German Industry for International Cooperation.
This organization has contacts to thousands of German senior experts in all kind of fields and they cater for N.G.O’s, companies or Government departments around the world interested in an expert who can assist on a voluntary base.
Every year some S.E.S assignments were conducted here in Samoa and this year there have been already two S.E.S expert assignments in the butchery and ceramic production field successfully completed.
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