Teletón had to transport patients to clinics across Chile - but its GPS provider lost track of vehicles the moment they left cities.
Teletón had to transport patients to clinics across Chile - but its GPS provider lost track of vehicles the moment they left cities.
2 PagesCASE STUDY: Teletón 1 www.fleetup.com 1-833-663-5338 Teletón, the world’s most widely-watched telethon, had to transport patients to clinics across Chile - but its GPS provider lost track of vehicles the moment they left cities. Teletón isn’t well-known in the English-speaking world, but in Chile, the 27-hour telethon is a phenomenon. Its roots reach back to the mid-20th century, when the country was shocked by successive polio pandemics. Thousands of children were left with chronic conditions including muscle paralysis, skeletal deformations, and scoliosis. In 1947, a group of doctors, patients, and educators joined forces to help. They formed the Society for the Aid of Disabled Children and established a clinic in Santiago. After Jonas Salk’s 1955 discovery of the polio va
