Telemedicine service eSanjeevani completes 3 million consultations
The scheme was launched in November 2019 and Andhra Pradesh was the first state to launch eSanjeevaniAB-HWC services
The National Telemedicine Service—eSanjeevani—successfully completed 3 million consultations on March 17 with 35,000 daily healthcare check-ups across the country, an official statement read. The scheme was set up in 2019 to boost the digital health ecosystem of the country.
Set up by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, the National Telemedicine Service offers two verticals of healthcare services through eSanjeevani—doctor to doctor (eSanjeevani AB-HWC) telemedicine platform that is based on hub and spoke model and patient to doctor telemedicine platform (eSanjeevaniOPD) which provides outpatient services to the citizens in the confines of their homes.
Under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme, all the health and wellness centers provide eSanjeevaniAB-HWC facilities to the citizens. As many as 1,55,000 Health & Wellness Centres across India will soon be operational by December 2022.
The scheme was launched in November 2019 and Andhra Pradesh was the first state to launch eSanjeevaniAB-HWC services. The aim of the scheme is to bridge the digital health divide between urban and rural India.
“eSanjeevaniOPD provides digital health services to citizens through more than 250 onlineOPDs set up on eSanjeevaniOPD. Over 220 of these onlineOPDs are specialist OPDs and the rest are general OPDs. eSanjeevaniOPD was rolled out on 13th of April 2020 during the first lockdown in the country when all the OPDs were closed. So far, over 21,00,000 patients have been served through eSanjeevaniOPD,” the official statement read.
It further revealed the leading 10 states in terms of adoption (number of consultations) of eSanjeevani: Tamil Nadu (6,42,708), Uttar Pradesh (6,31,019), Karnataka (6,07,305), Andhra Pradesh (2,16,860), Madhya Pradesh (2,04,296), Gujarat (1,95,281), Kerala (93,317), Maharashtra (84,742), Uttarakhand (74,776) and Himachal Pradesh (67,352).
As many as 31,000 doctors and paramedics have been trained nationwide under eSanjeevani. Around 14,000 doctors practice telemedicine on eSanjeevaniOPD and over 17,000 doctors and Community Health Officers use eSanjeevaniAB-HWC.
The iOS application for eSanjeevani is expected to be launched soon which is further expected to deepen the National Telemedicine Service reach in the country.
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