All India Medical Science (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar has starts providing consultation to patients through telemedicine facility. This facility will helps to maintain the social distancing. The pandemic COVID-19 out break the country is in lock down so this facility will helps both the doctor and the patients to fight against corona. The departments enlisted for consultation through telemedicine mode include general medicine, surgery, obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Orthopedics, Pulmonary medicine, Psychiatry, Urology and Cardiology. in AIIMS, Bhubaneswar initially only nine departments have been included in the mobile platform .
The In-charg of medical superitendent Dr Jawahar SK Pillai said nine mobile tablets have been configured for WhatsApp video calling and the doctors will provide e- prescibe to patients via whatsapp or photo/scan or digital copy of signed prescription.
Dr Jawahar SK Pillai said"The doctor have been advised to prescribe drugs already used by patients on follow up or those drugs which are safe for use"
About AIIMS, Bhubaneswar:
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar is one of the apex healthcare Institutes established by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY). Under this scheme six new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences have been established at Patna, Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Rishikesh apart from the one at New Delhi.In his Independence Day Speech on August 15, 2003, then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajapayee announced opening up of 6 AIIMS Hospitals at Patna, Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur and Rishikesh under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) launched for up gradation of medicare facilities in underserved areas of the country besides providing quality medical education in super-specialty disciplines in these areas.
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