A sentinel center was selected based on several criteria, including the number of general practitioners (at last two by center), care level (activities, number of people that visit the center, equipments), communication facilities (mobile phone network availability) and motivation (voluntary participation) for the surveillance activity.
The Egyptian government had shut down Internet and mobile phone networks days earlier, hoping to limit communication facilities used by the demonstrators.
This may be due to the travel distances for patients, lack and/or sharing of communication facilities such as telephones and mobiles and network coverage can occur in a remote setting, other pressing and urgent matters needing attention on the day.
To avoid excessive centralization of equipment that would make the system vulnerable to nuclear attack, the computers and communication facilities are widely dispersed and supplemented by mobile facilities.
In addition, they had no access to communication facilities such as good road network or mobile phone services to call for help and transfer the woman to the clinic or the district hospital in good time for further management.
For instance, community health workers could be trained and equipped with mobile communication devices.
Pylons provide the site with tip-top communication facilities, which somehow do not extend to the village, where most locals can't get a mobile signal, let alone decent broadband provision.
The huge popularity of voice and data services in mobile communication facilitates ubiquitous infrastructure that has been mainly driven by the scalability of their architectures and the flexibility of their search facilities.
(The abbreviation stands for global system for mobile communication).
Mobile communication is entirely reliant on radio waves.
