Is there a doctor aboard the ship?
An EU-funded project which seeks to use modern communications technology to help the master treat somebody in an emergency is just one of a number of remedies
IF you had a budget of exactly 1,860,616.54 euros, what would you spend it on? Well, the EU's European Regional Development Fund, the Hamburg Authority for Health and Consumer Protection and a group of German shipowners have chipped in precisely that amount into a project aimed at improving the health of seafarers.
The interdisciplinary e-healthy ship project is aimed at improving health management on ships without doctors on board.
If the project actually achieves that, it will be money well spent.
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