Delhi Government Launches Comprehensive Tele-Medicine Services

The Delhi Government's Health and Family Welfare Department has introduced Tele-Medicine services for 13 medical specialties via the e-Sanjeevani portal. This initiative offers free consultations with doctors through video calls, improving healthcare accessibility, and reducing hospital outpatient department burdens. An IEC campaign will further promote the services.

The Health and Family Welfare Department of the Delhi Government has launched Tele-Medicine services for 13 medical specialties via the e-Sanjeevani portal, according to an official statement.

As part of efforts to enhance healthcare accessibility, the service enables patients to consult doctors via video calls using smartphones or computers, the statement added. By providing affordable and accessible healthcare from home, the initiative aims to ease the burden on hospital outpatient departments.

Offered free of charge on the e-Sanjeevani Telemedicine Portal, coverage includes General Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Psychiatry, ENT, Dentistry, Dermatology, Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, and Unani. A total of 75 doctors and 67 link officers are available from Monday to Friday between 9 am and 2 pm, and on Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm. An upcoming IEC campaign will further promote the services, the department said.

(With inputs from agencies.)