BEIJING: Landing Med, a medical technology company based in Wuhan, China, dispatched three self-developed cervical cancer screening devices along with 5,000 sets of supporting consumable items to Pakistan.
With these AI-powered devices, 10,000 Pakistani women will receive free cervical cancer screening and early diagnosis of tumors, China Economic Net (CEN) reported on Friday.
This is the first batch of devices under the China-Pakistan AI Cervical
Cancer Screening Program. In the future, more will be provided to Pakistan.
Landing Med will also establish a Cloud Diagnostic Research Center for Akbar
Niazi Teaching Hospital to provide nationwide cervical cancer screening in
Pakistan.
Compared with artificial diagnosis, AI screening excels in speed and
accuracy. Even an experienced pathologist can only examine up to 100 cell
slides a day.
In addition, some pathological cells that do not show obvious changes in the
early stage may be missed when being observed through the microscope.
The AI-powered screening device, on the other hand, can automatically find
traces of cancer cells in digitized images within minutes based on decades
of manually accumulated diagnosis data and algorithm models.
According to Sun Xiaorong, founder and President of Landing Med, as Pakistan
has a huge population, there is a large number of women who need cervical
cancer screening. In this regard, efficient testing methods are required to
enhance coverage.
To benefit women in remote areas with scarce medical resources, the company
has developed a 5G+AI cloud diagnosis platform where experts from over ten
countries can hold consultations on reports uploaded to the cloud platform,
which saves patients the trouble of repeatedly visiting the hospital for
sample collection and report analysis.
The China-Pakistan AI Cervical Cancer Screening Program started in 2019 on
the ninth meeting of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Joint Cooperation
Committee when two think tanks of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
signed an MoU with Pakistan’s Ministry of Health to jointly provide AI
cervical cancer screening services in Gwadar Port and other cities in
Pakistan. Landing Med signed an agreement with its Pakistani partner in
November 2021 to execute the program.
