A meeting was held yesterday chaired by Pradipta kumar Mohapatra Commissioner-cum-Secretary Health & Family welfare Department to review on functioning of Tele-Medicine Network in Odisha. After a detailed discussion it was decided that patients from District Headquarters Hospital before being referred to Medical College Hospital should have pre-referral screening utilizing the Telemedicine Facility.
This would help in cutting down the number of un-necessary referrals. Similarly patients while being discharged from Medical College Hospitals should be instructed to report to nearest district level telemedicine node for follow up instead of coming to medical college hospital each time, so that they could save unnecessary expenditure on transportation.
More over steps would be taken as to how any telemedicine node under Odisha telemedicine network can establish direct connectivity to S.G.P.G.I.M.S Lucknow for availing expert medical services. Principal Secretary Medical Education, Government of U.P would be requested to formalize cooperation between SPGIMS and Medical Institutions of Odisha in this regards. Further it was decided to speed up the final phase of construction of State level TeleMedicine Resource Centre under construction within premises of SCB medical college & Hospital Cuttack so that it would be operational from coming March was decided.
The meeting held in the conference hall of NRHM Odisha was attended by Dr Promod Meherda MD,NRHM, Prof(Dr) P.C.Mohapatra Dean & Principal SCB Medical College, Prof.B.N.Mohanty, Dr Sonamali Bag DMET, Dr N.K.Das DHS, Kulamani Mishra Deputy Secretary and other officials.
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Quelle/Source: India Education Diary, 17.01.2013
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