New Delhi, Sep 8 (UNI) The 'eSanjeevani' telemedicine service, the platform of the Health Ministry providing tele-consultations, has completed 3 lakh tele-consultations.
While ensuring physical distancing, the telemedicine service connects doctors with patients and provides essential healthcare at a critical time when conventional medicine is perceived to be risky owing to the nature of infectious Covid-19 disease.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had presided over a meet to mark the platform's completion of 1.5 lakh on August 9. The platform has registered double that number of consultations within a month since then. One lakh of these tele-consultations were held in the past 20 days. The platform had completed the first 1,00,000 consultations on July 23 and the subsequent 1,00,000 on August 18 within a span of 26 days, an official release here said.