Cisco will provide a medical grade network to former cricketer Imran Khan’s Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) in Pakistan, as part of the company’s "Social Innovation Services".

The medical grade network would enable the public to access the Centre’s facilities via a virtual hospital and interact with leading cancer research centres across the world.

Cisco will upgrade the existing system at the hospital to connect the hospital’s walk-in clinics at Peshawar and Karachi and remote areas such as Skardu and Mianwali.

According to a Cisco spokesman, "The aim of the project is to work on prevention of cancer using technology. This is the first hospital that Cisco has helped connect under its Social Innovation Services."