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The majority of our fellow citizens do not have access to basic health care close to their living places. The expert medical care is still far removed from them. They need to travel long distances, incur expenses on travel, suffer wages loss and time loss. The telemedicine services can provide expert medical care in the farthest corners of out states and districts and give opinion or treatment in time to prevent catastrophe or worsening of the disease.
The G S Memorial Plastic Surgery Hospital Started its telemedicine services in 2013 initially only as a Skype based platform in 2011 and later as a fully developed center based telemedicine system across four states.
The purpose of the network was to provide healthcare, including telemedicine examination, diagnosis and treatment advice, nutrition care of cleft patients, pre and post operative care of the cleft patients coming from these areas. It had great potential to save journey time, travel expenses, wages loss and the time of the hospital and burden on the hospital system. It was aimed towards poor cleft patients coming from these areas. Later, other patients requiring any plastic surgical care were included in it.
The centers were organized in such a way that they could coordinate and deliver healthcare remotely. The center staff also visits the patient’s home for the follow up, in case they are not able to come to the center.
$ students of Sloan School of management of MIT Boston had taken a project on it in 2014 and carefully analyzed and developed systems for its smooth running.
The centers now provide telemedicine “Remote Access Medine™” services to about 10000 patients every year and has provided these services to more than 110,000 patients free of charge and to another 1500 with minimal user charge.
The following is the list of centers in different states.
The G S Memorial Hospital can be contacted on the following numbers in case of any support needed.
Mobile: 8601222230, 8601222235
Landline: 0542-2360950