Telemedicine has played a vital role for the patients in home isolation. Hence it must be stretched and made available to the rural areas. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed the need of the same because of the gradual shift of the pandemic from urban to rural areas.
The Prime Minister was interacting with a Group of Doctors via video conferencing from beyond the country. He praised the doctors for forming teams and providing telemedicine to the villages.
He said,”Doctors across the states should form similar teams, train final year MBBS students and MBBS interns, and work towards ensuring that all tehsils and districts of the country have telemedicine service”.
Mr. Modi also talked over the challenges of Black Fungus and asked the doctors to put some extra efforts. Doctors made him aware about their preparedness on the issue. Prime Minister will also communicate with field officials on Tuesday from various states and districts to discuss about their experience in handling the pandemic. These officials will be from Karnataka, Bihar, Assam, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, MP, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi.
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