Telemedicine service e-Sanjeevani completes 9 lakh consultations: Health Ministry

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has claimed that its telemedicine initiative – eSanjeevani - completed 9 lakh consultations.

Tamil Nadu has topped in e-consultations followed by Uttar Pradesh and Kerala.

The top ten States with highest consultations through eSanjeevani and eSanjeevaniOPD platforms are Tamil Nadu (2,90,770), Uttar Pradesh (2,44,211), Kerala (60,401), Madhya Pradesh (57,569), Gujarat (52,571), Himachal Pradesh (48,187), Andhra Pradesh (37,681), Uttarakhand (29,146), Karnataka (26,906), and Maharashtra (10,903).

Calling it a landmark achievement, the Ministry said that telemedicine is a new modality for remote diagnosis and treatment of patients over the internet.

“eSanjeevani enables virtual meetings between the patients and doctors & specialists from geographically dispersed locations, through video conferencing that occurs in real-time,” the Health Ministry said in a press statement.

It added, “At the end of these remote consultations, eSanjeevani generates an electronic prescription which can be used for sourcing medicines. In order to enable the delivery of outpatient services remotely during COVID-19 pandemic as many as 28 States have on-boarded the Ministry of Health’s eSanjeevani initiative.”

“These States are aggressively working towards long term enablement of telemedicine services.”

Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched two variants of eSanjeevani namely - doctor to doctor (eSanjeevani AB-HWC) in the hub and spoke model and patient to doctor (eSanjeevaniOPD).

It has been one year now that eSanjeevani Ayushman Bharat-HWC was rolled out. Andhra Pradesh was the first state to roll out eSanjeevaniAB-HWC services in November 2019 and since then around 240 hubs and over 5000 spokes have been set up by various States.

eSanjeevani AB-HWC has completed over 1,83,000 consultations.