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By: Shree1news, 28 OCT 2020eSanjeevani, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s telemedicine initiative has accomplished 6 Lakh tele consultations. It took solely 15 days to finish the final one lakh consultations. In what might be seen as a giant push for the ‘Digital India’ initiative of the Prime Minister, the eSanjeevani digital platform has proved its usefulness and quick access for the caregivers and the medical neighborhood, and people in search of healthcare companies within the instances of COVID. States like Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Gujarat run eSanjeevani OPD for 12 hours a day and seven days per week. It’s a testimony to the truth that eSanjeevani is step by step gaining traction with sufferers and docs.
eSanjeevani is accessible to the inhabitants in 27 States/UTs throughout India. The digital platform gives eHealth companies by greater than 6000 docs who man 217 on-line OPDs in affected person to physician telemedicine mannequin i.e. eSanjeevaniOPD.
States are additionally extending the attain of specialised well being companies to the folks in smaller cities and rural areas by eSanjeevani (AB-HWC) that’s operational at round 4000 Well being & Wellness Centres linked with over 175 hubs (arrange at District Hospitals and Medical schools). Over 20,000 clinicians and well being staff have been on eSanjeevani’s two variants. At the moment, eSanjeevani is recording as much as over 8500 consultations per day.
A custom-made eSanjeevani OPD was rolled out by the Union Well being Ministry on 13th of April 2020 through the first lockdown when the OPDs throughout the nation had been shutdown whereas eSanjeevani (AB-HWC) was launched by Ministry of Well being and Household Welfare in November 2019. Will probably be carried out at 1,55,000 Well being and Wellness Centres underneath Govt. of India’s Ayushman Bharat Scheme in ‘Hub & Spoke’ mannequin by December 2022. eSanjeevani AB-HWC is useful at round 4,000 Well being and Wellness Centerspresently and on boarding of an equal variety of HWCs is underway.
The highest ten States which have registered the best consultations by eSanjeevani and eSanjeevani OPD platforms are Tamil Nadu (203286), Uttar Pradesh (168553), Kerala (48081), Himachal Pradesh (41607), Andhra Pradesh (31749), Madhya Pradesh (21580), Uttarakhand (21451), Gujarat (16346), Karnataka (13703), and Maharashtra (8747). Well being Ministry is complementing efforts of State Governments by establishing a sturdy digital well being ecosystem and sources (human and infrastructural) to spice up the adoption of eSanjeevani. The Ministry has roped in Mohali department of the Centre for Growth of Superior Computing (CDAC) for offering end-to-end technical companies like growth, implementation, operations, and technical help together with coaching of well being personnel.
Contemplating the usefulness and ease of use of eSanjeevani for extending the attain of well being companies, States are actively contemplating utilizing eSanjeevaniOPD for inmates of old-age properties and prisons.
Source: PIB
