The American singer and actress Jennifer López has donated telemedicine equipment for the care of poor children to Panama, where she is to start her world tour on the 14th of June, she informed donors on Tuesday. The equipment, donated by the Foundation created by the diva and her sister Lynda, is made up of seven telemedicine centers to be installed in several different Panamanian pediatric centers, some of them located in indigenous communities.
These centers will include digital diagnostic equipment and video-conferencing stations that will allow doctors to exchange their patients diagnoses and treatment plans with colleagues from other Panamanian centers and specialist children’s doctors in Los Angeles, USA. “Our objective is to help doctors provide better medical care and improve the health and care of children,” the singer, who is of Puertorican origin, said in a statement.
“Lynda and I feel fortunate to be able to make a contribution with extremely innovative new opportunities for the children and medical communities of this beautiful country, added López, 42. Panama is the second country, after Puerto Rico, to participate in this initiative run by the López Family. In Panama, the Hospital del Niño, located in the capital, will function as an epicenter for the telemedicine program, which includes connections with the Hospital de San Félix and three indigenous healthcare clinics located in the Ngöbe-Buglé district (west), the largest ethnic community in the country.
It will also have connections with the Hospital of Pediatric Specialties, in the capital, and the Obaldia Hospital, in Chiriquí, 400 km to the west of the capital. The program “will allow doctors to provide health check services throughout the country, via the use of cutting edge technology,” said Alberto Bissot, medical director of the Hospital del Niño. The launch of the program coincides with the beginning of Jennifer López’s world tour which will include Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela, Canada and the United States, where it will end on the 31st of August with a concert in Miami. López, the most influential celebrity in the world in 2012 according to Forbes magazine, is considered the richest person of Latin American origin in Hollywood, with an estimated fortune of over 250 million dollars.
