Use Telemedicine to reach out to rural healthcare problems: ASSOCHAM
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Consider this fact- there is only 1 primary health centre to attend to the health issues of 44,597 persons residing in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. Add to it, the scenario of dismal huge negotiation of doctors to practice in rural areas (which in most cases is mandatory), private practice which is largely unregulated and expensive and less medical colleges. The positive news is that technology has decreased the barrier between the urban and rural areas. Given the financial and human resources constraints in India, telemedicine comes as an administrable solution to reach out to rural areas.
The solution has been reiterated by ASSOCHAM in its sectoral paper-which invites telemedicine to be considered as serious solution to this continuous problem. The key issues, as implied in the said paper, have stated that the PM’s Digital India initiative can be a turned into a big success for the healthcare sector. The trigger to the situation would be the costs and adequate availability of Internet bandwidth, the paper has said.
Consider this fact- there is only 1 primary health centre to attend to the health issues of 44,597 persons residing in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. Add to it, the scenario of dismal huge negotiation of doctors to practice in rural areas (which in most cases is mandatory), private practice which is largely unregulated and expensive and less medical colleges. The positive news is that technology has decreased the barrier between the urban and rural areas. Given the financial and human resources constraints in India, telemedicine comes as an administrable solution to reach out to rural areas.
The solution has been reiterated by ASSOCHAM in its sectoral paper-which invites telemedicine to be considered as serious solution to this continuous problem. The key issues, as implied in the said paper, have stated that the PM’s Digital India initiative can be a turned into a big success for the healthcare sector. The trigger to the situation would be the costs and adequate availability of Internet bandwidth, the paper has said.
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