e – Sanjeevani has done 60 lakh consultations

e – Sanjeevani has done 60 lakh consultations

Subject : Governance

Context : Recently, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has announced that ‘eSanjeevani’ has crossed another milestone by completing 6 million (60 lakh) consultations through more than 375 online OPDs.

Concept :

About eSanjeevani

• It is Ministry of Health & Family Welfare’s National Telemedicine Service.
• It is operational in 31 States/Union Territories.
• It is first of its kind online OPD service offered by a country government to its citizens.
• It is conceptualised as a doctor to doctor telemedicine platform in November 2019 for implementation at 155,000 Health and Wellness Centres under Ayushman Bharat Scheme in a Hub & Spokes model.
• It supports two types of telemedicine services viz. Doctor-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani) and Patient-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani OPD) Tele-consultations.
• The eSanjeevani AB-HWC is the doctor to doctor telemedicine platform.
• It has been implemented at around 20,000 Health and Wellness Centres as spokes and over 1800 hubs in around 30 States.
• The eSanjeevani OPD (Patient-to-Doctor) was rolled out in 2020 in order to provide free online medical consultation to sick people at their residence.
• It was developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

• It is the premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for carrying out R&D in IT & E (Information Technologies and Electronics).