New Delhi, Mar 17 (FN Agency) National Telemedicine Service – eSanjeevani has crossed another milestone by completing 3 million (30 lakh) consultations, and daily over 35,000 patients across the country are using this innovative digital medium to seek health services. The Service, operational in 31 States/Union Territories, comprises of two variants of eSanjeevani namely – 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, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in statement on Wednesday.
eSanjeevaniAB-HWC is being implemented at Health & Wellness Centres under Ayushman Bharat Scheme, and by December 2022 it will be made operational at 1,55,000 Health & Wellness Centres across India. It provides digital health services to the citizens through more than 250 onlineOPDs set up on eSanjeevaniOPD. Over 220 of these online eSanjeevaniOPDs are specialist and the rest are general. The service is also addressing the shortage of doctors and specialists at ground level while reducing the burden on secondary and tertiary level hospitals. In line with the National Digital Health Mission, eSanjeevani is also boosting digital health ecosystem in the country.
In a short span of time, National Telemedicine Service has started aiding the Indian healthcare delivery system by plugging the digital health divide that exists in urban and rural India. Tamil Nadu (642708), Uttar Pradesh (631019), Karnataka (607305), Andhra Pradesh (216860), Madhya Pradesh (204296), Gujarat (195281), Kerala (93317), Maharashtra (84742), Uttarakhand (74776) and Himachal Pradesh (67352) are leading 10 States in terms of adoption (number of consultations) of eSanjeevani.