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E-Sanjeevani A Teleconsultation Portal Brief Discussion and objective
E-Sanjeevani : A Teleconsultation Portal (Launch,Objective and Significance)
e-Sanjeevani is a government scheme that offers online OPD doctor consultations to citizens.
According to the government this is the first time the government of a country is offering this kind of services to citizens.
The scheme started in Nov 2019 under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
Objective of e-Sanjeevani
It is also called as the National Teleconsultation Service,and it provides healthcare services to patients in their homes.
This online portal is developed for the development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Mohali.
The panel of doctors is decided by the State Governments and the services is also available on an app.
Few states like Jharkhand, Kerala, Punjab & Tamil Nadu have already started offering doctor consultation services.
Significance of Telemedicine services like e-Sanjeevani
Telemedicine services are essential in our country because here the ratio of doctor to patient is very low 1:1445 and according to WHO (it should be 1:1000)
The medical service is highly scarce in rural,hilly and remote areas.
So,therefore to deal with these areas, a teleconsultation system would be very helpful.
And now as we are going through this pandemic phase,it is important that patients find a way to their doctor for consultations and this wil also reduce the
chances of spreading of the Covid-19. And this emerged out as a successful programme.