eSanjeevani, GOI’s telemedicine initiative, completes 1.2 Crore consultations; Over 90k daily users

Government of India’s eSanjeevani - National Telemedicine Service is plugging the digital health divide that exists in urban and rural India.

NewsBharati    21-Sep-2021
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eSanjeevani, GOI’s national telemedicine service, has completed 1.2 crore consultations rapidly shaping into the country’s most popular and the largest telemedicine service. At present, the National Telemedicine Service is serving daily around 90,000 patients across the country signaling wide adoption by patients as well as doctors, and specialists across the country.

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"eSanjeevani is operational through two modes viz. - doctor to doctor telemedicine platform that is based on hub and spoke model and patient to doctor telemedicine platform which provides outpatient services to the citizens in the confines of their homes", the statement read.
 
 
Government of India’s eSanjeevani - National Telemedicine Service is plugging the digital health divide that exists in urban and rural India. It is addressing the shortage of doctors and specialists at ground level while reducing the burden on secondary and tertiary level hospitals.

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In line with the National Digital Health Mission, this digital initiative is also boosting digital health ecosystem in the country. It is an indigenous telemedicine technology developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Mohali.The C-DAC team in Mohali is providing end to end services. Considering the usefulness of telemedicine and in planning for the unforeseen event of outbreak of another wave of COVID 19 infections, the initiative of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is being augmented further to enable 500,000 consultations per day.
 
 
Leading 10 States in terms of adoption (12033498) of eSanjeevani are Andhra Pradesh (37,04,258), Karnataka (22,57,994), Tamil Nadu (15,62,156), Uttar Pradesh (13,28,889), Gujarat (4,60,326), Madhya Pradesh (4,28,544), Bihar (4,04,345), Maharashtra (3,78,912), West Bengal (2,74,344), Kerala (2,60,654).
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