PANJIM: The Centre on Wednesday announced that National Telemedicine Service – eSanjeevani has crossed another milestone by completing 3 million (30 lakh) consultations. Currently, the National Telemedicine Service is operational in 31 States/Union Territories (UTs) and daily over 35,000 patients across the country are using this innovative digital medium – eSanjeevani, to seek health services.
The National Telemedicine Service, set up by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare 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.
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In the State-wide list shared by the Centre on Wednesday, Goa had completed only 110 eSanjeevani consultations as on March 16, 2021. Out of these, 45 consultations were eSanjeevani HWC and 65 were eSanjeevani OPD.
Goa has however lagged the list finishing at 26 of the 31 States/UTS.
