A group of Philippine doctors and health workers are fast-tracking their donations of free artificial limbs to poor and far-flung amputees with the help of a Philippine-made information technology that was developed for a telecommunication company, a local paper has reported.Doctors from the University of the Philippines – Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) have started to use a new program called Amputee Screening via CEllphone NeTworking (Ascent), which allows social workers to get data from beneficiaries who need prosthetics, then send the data they have gathered to doctors and to the manufacturers of prosthetics, Lyne Abanilla, executive director of Physicians for Peace (PFP) Philippines, told the Manila Times.

With the new IT program, PFP Philippines can extend its services to physical therapy and prosthetics care that are needed by their beneficiaries, said Abanilla.

Ascent was developed by the Ateneo (University) Java Wireless Competency Centre for Smart Communications Inc, the server of the country’s first-of-its kind mobile and web-based medical application.

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