The service, known as ESGivani, is operational in 31 states and union territories and more than 35,000 patients across the country are using this innovative digital medium in search of health services.
The Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday that the Centre’s telemedicine service has delivered 30 lakh consultations in the top 10 states along with Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.
The service, known as ESGivani, is operational in 31 states and union territories and more than 35,000 patients across the country are using this innovative digital medium in search of health services.
The National Telemedicine Service is set up by the Ministry of Health, which includes two variants of eSanjivani – Doctor to Doctor (eSanjeevani AB-HWC) telemedicine platform based on Hub and Spoke model and Patient to Doctor Telemedicine Platform (eSanjeevani OPD) Hai provides outpatient services to citizens within the confines of their homes. The ministry said in its statement that Isengivani AB-HWC is being implemented in Health and Wellness Centers under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme and by December 2022 it will be operationalized in 1,55,000 Health and Wellness Centers across India.
It was rolled out in November 2019 and Andhra Pradesh was the first state to launch Ishwarji AB-HWC services. Since more than 1,000 hubs and about 15,000 spokes have been established in various states. The statement said that eSanjeevani AB-HWC has completed approximately 9,00,000 consultations.
ESanjeevani OPD provides digital health services to citizens through over 250 online OPDs set up at eSanjeevaniOPD. Of these, over 220 online OPD specialists are OPDs and the rest are general OPDs. The ministry said that the ESGV OPD was rolled out in April 2020 during the first lockdown in the country. “So far, more than 21,00,000 patients have been served through eSanjeevaniOPD,” it said.
The service has started supporting the Indian healthcare delivery system by incorporating the digital health divide that exists in urban and rural India, the ministry highlighted.
“It is also eliminating the shortage of grassroots doctors and specialists while reducing the burden on secondary and tertiary level hospitals. In line with the National Digital Health Mission, the digital health ecosystem in the country is also getting a boost.
The leading 10 states in terms of number of adoptions (number of consultations) of ESanjeevani are Tamil Nadu (6,42,708), Uttar Pradesh (6,31,019), Karnataka (6,07,305), Andhra Pradesh (2,7,860), Madhya Pradesh ( 2) Are, 04,296), Gujarat (1,95,281), Kerala (93,317), Maharashtra (84,742), Uttarakhand (74,776) and Himachal Pradesh (67,352). In relation to adoption between districts, eSanjeevani has been used by citizens in about 600 districts. Nationally, more than 31,000 doctors and paramedics have been trained and 14,000 of these doctors practice telemedicine at the E-Sanjivani OPD and more than 17,000 doctors and community health officers use Szewani AB-HWC.
“The rapid and widespread adoption of eSinjivani suggests that a significant proportion of outpatient visits can be managed remotely, medically effective. The ministry said that patients with urgent medical conditions are using Eswangi without the risk of getting themselves infected and compromising the quality of care.
The top five districts with highest number of consultations are Salem (Tamil Nadu) (1,23,658), Madurai (Tamil Nadu) (60,547), Hassan (Karnataka) (43,995), Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) (35,297), Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh). ) (34,642). This shows that citizens in tier-3 and 4 cities find eSanjeevani even more useful. In addition, 1 further.15% of patients come to the Christian OPD by the age of 1 and most of the patients (50.35%) are between 20 and 40 years old, while 22.% 4% of the patients are 60 to 40 years of age. K and about 6% of the statement said that the patients are senior citizens.
The data shows that female patients (54.66%) outperform male patients in esinjivani OPD.
In consultation with the states, the Ministry of Health is proposing innovative and high-impact services around eSanjeevani and C-DAC Mohali is constantly working to empower patients and doctors to enrich eSanjeevani with new and useful features and functionality. Used to be.
Soon the eSanjeevani OPD’s iOS app will be made available on the iOS App Store and this is expected to increase the penetration of the National Telemedicine Service in the country. The statement said that the Jharkhand government is setting up a special OPD on eSanjeevaniOPD, which will release COVID-19 co-morbidities to the public.
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