eSanjeevani: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 4 February 2023

February 4, 2023

eSanjeevani

✅It is a national doctor to doctor telemedicine service that strives to provide an alternative to the conventional physical consultations via digital platform.

✅e-Sanjeevani is a cohesive part of Ayushman Bharat digital Health mission ( ABDHM) and more than 45,000 ABHA IDs have been generated via eSanjeevani application.

✅Leading ten states for usage of this platform are: Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana and Gujarat.

Two Verticles:

✅Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) Programme:

It endeavors to bridge rural-urban digital health divide by providing assisted teleconsultations.
It ensures that e-beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat Scheme are able to avail of the benefits they are entitled to.
This vertical operates on a Hub-and-Spoke model wherein the AB-HWCs set up at state level, act as spokes, are mapped with the hub (comprising MBBS/ Specialty/Super-Specialty doctors) at zonal level.
This model has been successfully implemented in 1,09,748 AB-HWC and 14,188 Hubs, hence, achieving a total of 7,11,58,968 teleconsultations

✅eSanjeevaniOPD:

It caters to citizens in both rural and urban areas.
It leverages technology via smartphones, tablets, laptops enabling doctor consultations to be accessible from the patient’s residence regardless of location.
eSanjeevaniOPD has trained and onboarded 2,22,026 specialists, doctors and health workers.
This platform has an impressive record of having served over 4.34 lakhs patients in one day.

eSanjeevaniOPD – Stay Home OPD has been developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Mohali, a premier R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).