CSCs To Start Telemedicine Services In Rural Areas

• 06 Jan 2020

• To bring down cost of treatment and to encourage Siddha and other systems of alternative medicine, such as homeopathy and ayurveda, Common Service Centres (CSCs) will now provide telemedicine services in collaboration with the Ministry of Ayush through video conferencing in rural areas.
• To run this scheme, Ayush Ministry will arrange doctors for low-cost health services to rural people at their doorsteps.
• For this service, CSCs will use BharatNet broadband network of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).
• The service will be first launched in Tamil Nadu and it will be extended in other states later.
• Initially, the service will be available for free, but later there may be some nominal charges to recover the cost of service.