eSanjeevani achieves landmark milestone of providing telemedicine services to 10+ crore patients

New Delhi: eSanjeevani is a revolution in the health sector of India. The national telemedicine platform registered another landmark by providing teleconsultation services to 10 crore beneficiaries shared Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare.

Further appreciating the healthcare services being provided through the digital platform of teleconsultation, Dr Mandaviya noted that 100.11 million patients were served at 115,234 health & wellness centres (as spokes) through 15,731 hubs and 1,152 online OPDs populated with 229,057 medical specialists and super-specialists trained in telemedicine. eSanjeevani has been augmented further to support over one million consultations in a day, so far, the platform has peaked to serve 5,10,702 patients in a day.

eSanjeevani- has been a blessing, especially to people in rural areas where it was harder to access care. It has since found much wider application across the health spectrum and has transformed primary healthcare services in our country. “It can be safely assumed that through ICT, eSanjeevani has democratised healthcare. It is reassuring to note that over 57 per cent of the beneficiaries of eSanjeevani are women and around 12 per cent of beneficiaries are senior citizens. This platform also goes to reflect that the platform is finding its reach in the more vulnerable sections of the population where its effect is to fetch maximum impact. This speaks volumes about the telemedicine platform and the extent to which it has reinvented itself over time to meet the growing demands of healthcare in India”, he added.

Leading 10 states in terms of adoption of eSanjeevani are Andhra Pradesh (31701735), Tamil Nadu (12374281), West Bengal (12311019), Karnataka (11293228), Uttar Pradesh (5498907), Maharashtra (4780259), Telangana (4591028), Madhya Pradesh (4015879), Bihar (3220415) and Gujarat (2988201).

After tapping the potential of teleconsultations to the fullest, the Union Health Ministry is all set to add the logical next dimension of telediagnosis in the new avatar of eSanjeevani. This entails seamless integration of a vast spectrum point of care diagnostic devices (PoCDs), also known as near-patient testing. PoCDs provide results of various clinical tests including physiological parameters within minutes of taking a test thereby facilitating rapid diagnosis and quick decisions.