All the centres will be provided with facilities for video-conferencing, ECG, ultra-sound and other facilities. The nurses at these centres will collect the results and communicate them with the experts in the call centres at Chennai. Based on their advice, first, aid will be provided and the patient will be referred to the suitable hospitals nearby.
"With this, we aim to reach out to people in rural areas who need advanced medical support which otherwise may take time to reach hospitals that have all the medical facilities," said R Damodaran, deputy director for Public Health Services, Coimbatore. He added that the two centres in Anaikatti and Rottikadai will be completed before Pongal.
For health-related queries or in case of health problems, the helpline can be reached on 104. The call centre in Chennai will have 20 people in charge of the operations with MBBS doctors and experts in general medicine, general surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology. Information on various aspects of health from diseases to schemes and even the nearest health centres will be available from the helplines.
The existing HSCs in rural areas are manned by nurses. Telemedicine facilities are expected to overcome the limitations facing these centres. Around Rs2.87 crores has been earmarked for the project where around Rs15 lakhs each will be spent on every telemedicine centre, Damodaran said.
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Quelle/Source: The Times of India, 23.12.2012
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