New Delhi: National Telemedicine Service ‘eSanjeevani’ has completed 1.2 crores (120 lakh) consultations with serving daily around 90,000 patients across the country, the Ministry of Health said today.
“eSanjeevani is rapidly shaping into the country’s most popular and the largest telemedicine service,” the Ministry said in a statement.
Currently, the National Telemedicine Service is serving daily around 90,000 patients across the country signalling wide adoption by patients as well as doctors, and specialists across the country, it said.
“National Telemedicine Service eSanjeevani is operational through two modes viz. – eSanjeevani AB-HWC (doctor to doctor telemedicine platform) that is based on a hub and spoke model and eSanjeevaniOPD – (patient to doctor telemedicine platform) which provides outpatient services to the citizens in the confines of their homes. eSanjeevani AB-HWC has completed around 67,00,000 consultations,” the Ministry said.
Andhra Pradesh was the first state to roll out eSanjeevaniAB-HWC services. Since its rollout, over 2000 hubs and around 28,000 spokes have been set up in various States.
“eSanjeevaniOPD is a telemedicine variant for citizens to seek non-COVID19 & COVID19 related outpatient health services. It was rolled out on April 13, 2020, during the first lockdown in the country when all the OPDs were closed,” it said.
So far, over 51,00,000 patients have been served through eSanjeevaniOPD which hosts over 430 online OPDs which include general OPDs and speciality OPDs, the statement read.
Premier tertiary level medical institutions like AIIMS in Bathinda (Punjab), Bibinagar (Telangana), Kalyani (West Bengal), Rishikesh (Uttarakhand), King George Medical College, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) etc., are also providing outpatient health services through eSanjeevaniOPD.
Leading 10 States in terms of adoption (12033498) of eSanjeevani are Andhra Pradesh (37,04,258), Karnataka (22,57,994), Tamil Nadu (15,62,156), Uttar Pradesh (13,28,889), Gujarat (4,60,326), Madhya Pradesh (4,28,544), Bihar (4,04,345), Maharashtra (3,78,912), West Bengal (2,74,344), Kerala (2,60,654), it said.
