eSanjeevani

Why in News?

•  National telemedicine service of India, eSanjeevani has recently achieved 8 crore teleconsultations.

Highlights

• It surpassed records by registering 1 crore consultations in approximately 5 weeks.
• It is a national doctor to doctor telemedicine service that strives to provide an alternative to the conventional physical consultations via digital platform.
• eSanjeevani is a cohesive part of Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission (ABDHM), and more than 45,000 ABHA IDs have been generated via eSanjeevani application.
• Leading ten states for usage of this platform are: Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana and Gujarat
• It caters to citizens In both rural and urban areas.
• It leverages technology via smartphones, tablets, laptops enabling doctor consultations to be accessible from the patient’s residence regardless of location.
• eSanjeevaniOPD has trained and onboarded 2,22,026 specialists, doctors and health workers.
• This platform has an impressive record of having served over 4.34 lakhs patients in one day.
• eSanjeevaniOPD – Stay Home OPD has been developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Mohali, a premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
• These platforms can be a gamechanger for people in the rural areas who do not have easy access to medical specialists located in cities.
• Telemedicine saves time and cost. Further, these platforms are in line with the government’s vision of ‘Digital India’ and necessary to tackle situations like Covid-19.