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Bihar: Telemedicine centre set up at Bhagalpur hospital

BHAGALPUR: In a bid to provide 24x7 medicare facilities to corona patients on phone and through WhatsApp, a telemedicine centre has started functioning on the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital (JLNMCH), a Covid-dedicated hospital.

The hospital has released the cell phone number 9430995093 and base phone number 0641-2401078 for availing the telemedicine facility.

The objective is to provide health services on phone to corona patients, who are either in home quarantine or are living in isolation centres and need advice of experts about their health condition, treatment procedures and medicines to be taken besides day-to-day mapping of their condition, said JLNMCH principal Dr Hemant Kumar Sinha.

“Doctors posted at JLNMCH, Mayaganj, besides those at JLNMC at Naulakha Kothi in Khanjarpur, will advice treatment procedures to the callers,” added Dr Sinha.

Explaining the telemedicine procedure, the JLNMC principal said that ‘telehealth’ or ‘telemedicine’ involves the use of electronic communication and software to provide clinical services to patients through telephonic conversation.

“It is a technology based medicare services provided by expert doctors to patients for improving the healthcare system especially in situation of medical emergencies and pandemics,” said Dr Hem Shanker Sharma, associate professor in the department of medicine and nodal officer for Covid-19 care centre at JLNMCH.

A control room number 0641-2421073 at sadar hospital has also been released by the district health officials for assisting Covid patients and those having Covid symptoms. It may be worth mentioning, according to statistics, the number of corona patients in Bhagalpur district increased to 2,638 (2,030 recovered and 32 deaths) whereas in Banka it increased to 681 (428 recovered and two deaths).

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