eSanjeevani is a great boon

Subject: Schemes

Context: PM Modi praised eSanjeevani

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).