At around 10 am, the telemedicine centre of SGPGIMS hooked on with the Patan medical institute in Nepalese capital Kathmandu and at the same time with PGI Chandigarh establishing a closer link between the three medical institutes that would cater to the patients in the time of crisis.
SGPGIMS had earlier established such a link with Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi in Pakistan through high bandwidth ISDN. It is also in the process of helping out the Afghanistan government, which has sought its assistance for a medical institute in Kabul. In fact, the institute with 50 seats would be constructed with the help of Indian government.
"The idea is to establish closer links with various SAARC countries, said SGPGIMS director," Dr Raj Kumar Sharma. "There are lot of patients coming to Lucknow from Nepal and we need to cater them," the director said.
A direct flight from Kathmandu has already made things easy for patients in Nepal to come down to India for availing high quality and the same time cheaper treatment, which otherwise the Himalayan country lacks.
Dr Raj Kumar said that a telemedicine network would not only provide medical assistance to patients in Nepal, but also help out the medical faculties with medical updates. "It would essentially help the patients who are required to come for a follow up," he said.
The institute is also being upgraded with fresh faculties coming up. All these would be able to reach out to the international shores through the telemedicine network.
Dr Sharma said that the institute's next stop would be Pan-Africa. "That is still under process. Once that happens, we would be able to cater to the patients in Africa as well," he said.
The international platform came through to the SGPGIMS around five years ago, when the institute of endocrine surgery managed to establish a contact with Ranguel University, Toulouse, France
On the national front, in March 2004, SGPGIMS got linked to Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Kochi, Kerala, an upcoming tertiary level institution in south India, through VSAT. Following this, a tele-mentoring trial by the department of Endocrine Surgery was carried out through satellite based telemedicine network.
Endocrine surgeons at SGPGIMS assisted surgeons in AIMS, Kochi located at a distance of 2500 km to successfully operate a patient of primary hyper-parathyroidism who had two unsuccessful operations in the past
Then between 2004 -2007 the institute carried out a telemedicine project with support of Uttarakhand government to facilitate speciality consultation and distant learning for the doctors and paramedical professionals of two district hospitals -- Base Hospitals Almora and Srinagar.
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Quelle/Source: The Times of India, 22.01.2011
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