Empowering sickle cell disease care: the rise of TechnoRehabLab in Sub-Saharan Africa for enhanced patient's perspectives.

WHAT IT FOUND

This article describes the setup of a new rehabilitation facility in the Democratic Republic of Congo that uses virtual reality and mobile technology for sickle cell patients.

It reports no clinical outcomes or study results, so it does not change practice.

What this paper is

This is a service description and advocacy piece detailing the establishment of the TechnoRehabLab in Lubumbashi. It outlines the technologies available and the challenges of providing care in Sub-Saharan Africa, but reports no patient outcomes, study methods, or results. There are no findings here to act on clinically.

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