This photograph taken on October 19, 2017, a Pakistani resident carries his sick son as he chats with a nurse after an online doctor gave a prescription for medicine at a clinic in the remote Bhosa village in Mansehra district. In a remote northern Pakistani village surrounded by lush green hills, Mohammad Fayyaz brings his two-year-old son to a clinic so that a female doctor sitting hundreds of kilometres away can examine him. / AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI / TO GO WITH: Pakistan-health-technology, FEATURE by Sajjad Tarakzai
BHOSA MANSEHRA, Pakistan: In a remote Pakistani village surrounded by lush green hills, Mohammad Fayyaz brings his two-year-old son to a clinic so that a female doctor sitting hundreds of kilometres away can examine him.
Healthcare in rural Pakistan and the careers of women doctors are being revolutionised as Internet access grows across the country, allowing people with limited mobility because of geography or culture to interact online.
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