FDTI - Fundação para a Divulgação das Tecnologias de Informação (Foundation for the Propagation of Information Technologies) has launched the second phase of its Project ''A smile with ICTs''. The launch took place on 28 April at Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Alentejo in Beja and at Faro's District Hospital.
The goal of this project, which began in 2005, is to provide paediatric units of public hospitals with technological equipment that will provide their younger patients (2 to 14 years) with the opportunity to engage in leisure activities and to keep in contact with family, friends and school. Aimed also at technicians, hospital volunteers and patients' families, the project equips these units with personal and portable computers, webcams, broadband internet connections, leisure and educational software and sites for family blogs. It also aims to provide specific training to the hospital technicians and families.
The project's first phase took in Instituto Português de Oncologia (Portuguese Oncology Institute) in Porto, Coimbra Pediatric Hospital, and Lisbon's Dona Estefânia Hospital. The second phase will run for two years, and will expand to include Centro Hospitalar do Funchal and Hospital Divino Espírito Santo in Ponta Delgada as well as Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Alentejo in Beja and Faro's District Hospital.
This FDTI initiative is being supported by ANACOM.
Further information:
- TIC Pediátrica http://juventude.gov.pt/Portal/FDTI/OQueFazemos/ProgramasIniciativas/TICPediatrica/
