(THE GIST OF PIB) e-Sanjeevani

(THE GIST OF PIB) E-Sanjeevani

Over three lakh e-Sanjeevani Tele-consultations were provided to the people in a single day (on 16th April 2022) through the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres across the country.
This is the highest number of teleconsultations ever done at Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres on a single day, surpassing its earlier record of 1.8 lakh teleconsultations per day.
More than 1.17 lakh Health and Wellness Centres are now operational in the country and the common citizens are taking advice from the top doctors through this facility.

Launched in 2009 by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare ‘eSanjeevani’ is a web-based comprehensive telemedicine solution. It aims to provide healthcare services to patients in their homes.
Besides enhancing the quality of medical services, addressing issues about uneven distribution and shortage of infrastructural as well as human resources, eSanjeevani also aims to make healthcare services equitable by bridging the digital divide that exists between the urban vs. rural, rich vs. poor etc.
eSanjeevani can also be used to provide medical education to interns, people across Various Common Service Centers (CSCs), etc.
The portal was designed & developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), a premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

It is being implemented under the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centre (AB-HWC). It aims to implement Doctor-to-Doctor teleconsultation in all the 1.5 lakh Health and Wellness Centres in conjunction with identified Medical College hospitals in a ‘Hub and Spoke’ model.
States have identified and set up dedicated ‘Hubs’ in Medical Colleges and District hospitals to provide teleconsultation services to ‘Spokes’, i.e SHCs, PHCs and HWCs.

Owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Health Ministry launched the second tele-consultation service enabling patient-to-doctor telemedicine through ‘eSanjeevaniOPD’.
This service is available as an Android mobile application as well. This has made it convenient for the people to avail of the health services without having to travel.
This e-health service is offered free of cost and has proved a boon in containing the spread of COVID while simultaneously enabling provisions for non-COVID essential healthcare.