Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India touches a new peak of 7,19,364 tests in a day
The total number of tests are now 2,41,06,535
Posted On: 09 AUG 2020 3:16PM by PIB Delhi
In a new high, India has scaled the peak of testing more
than 7 lakhs tests in a single day. Continuing the streak of more than 6 lakh
tests in a single day for several days, India’s tests have grown exponentially.
7,19,364 tests were done in the last 24 hours.
Such high level of testing will also lead to high number
of daily positive cases, however States have been advised to firmly focus on
comprehensive tracking, prompt isolation and effective treatment, following the
Centre-led strategy of TEST, TRACK, TREAT. Several meetings have been taken in
the past week to engage with States that are showing higher fatality rate.
Such an approach has started showing results and
recoveries are also increasing exponentially. India has recorded the highest
number of recoveries in a single day with 53,879 COVID patients having
recovered and discharged yesterday. With this, the total number of recovered
cases has touched another high of 14,80,884 today. This is more than twice the
number of active cases (6,28,747 today). The number of recovered cases has
touched another high of 2.36 times the active cases, which are all under
medical attention either in home isolation or in hospitals.
With higher number of recovered patients, the Recovery
Rate, which has continued on its growth graph, stands at 68.78% today.
The widening difference between recovered and active cases, indicative of the higher number of recoveries as compared to those either in hospitals or in home isolation, is 8,52,137 today.
Higher number of recoveries is a result of focused
implementation of the various actions taken collectively by the Centre and
State/UT governments towards ramping up the hospital and clinical management
infrastructure aimed at providing quality clinical care based on the Standard
of Care, as advised by the Centre in its Clinical Treatment Protocol. Due to
these efforts, the Case Fatality Rate has further slumped, touching an improved
rate of 2.01% today.
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https://www.mohfw.gov.in/ and @MoHFW_INDIA.
Technical queries related to COVID-19 may be sent to
technicalquery.covid19@gov.in and other queries on ncov2019@gov.in and
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In case of any queries on COVID-19, please call at the
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(Toll-free). List of helpline numbers of States/UTs on COVID-19 is also
available at
https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/coronvavirushelplinenumber.pdf .
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Dr. Harsh vardhan lauds the contribution of States in
popularising eSanjeevani, the Tele-Medicine platform rolled out by Health
Ministry
1.5 lakh tele-consultations completed through ‘eSanjeevani’ and ‘eSanjeevaniOPD’
Posted On: 09 AUG 2020 5:38PM by PIB Delhi
Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family
Welfare, today presided over a review meeting with States/UTs on the
“eSanjeevani” and “eSanjeevaniOPD” platforms as1.5 lakh tele-consultations were
completed on the tele-medicine service platforms of the Health Ministry. Sh.
Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare was also
present. Dr.C.Vijaya Baskar, Health Minister of Tamil Nadu joined
virtually.
In a short span of time since November 2019,
tele-consultation by eSanjeevaniand eSanjeevaniOPD have been implemented by 23
States (which covers 75% of the population) and other States are in the process
of rolling it out.
In a landmark achievement, the national telemedicine
service has completed more than 1,50,000 tele-consultations enabling patient to
doctor consultations from the confines of their home, as well as doctor to
doctor consultations.
Expressing appreciation for this accomplishment, Dr.
Harsh Vardhan said, “Under the guidance of Hon’ble Prime Minister, we have
started implementing the vision of Digital India through broadband and mobile
phones at the Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres. With the
cooperation of States and UTs, and a pool of selfless and talented medical
practitioners and specialists, we have been able to provide healthcare services
through tele-medicine platform such as eSanjeevani. This has substantially
augmented our health infrastructure during the COVID pandemic”.
Echoing similar sentiments, Sh. Ashwini K. Choubey
remarked that it would be a “gamechanger for people in the rural areas who do
not have easy access to medical specialists located in cities”.
This eSanjeevani platform has enabled two types of
telemedicine services viz. Doctor-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani) and Patient-to-Doctor
(eSanjeevani OPD) Tele-consultations. The former is being implemented under the
Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centre (AB-HWCs) programme. It is planned
to implement tele-consultation in all the 1.5 lakh Health and Wellness Centres
(as spokes) in a ‘Hub and Spoke’ model, by December 2022. States have
identified and set up dedicated ‘Hubs’ in Medical Colleges and District
hospitals to provide tele-consultation services to ‘Spokes’, i.e SHCs and PHCs.
As on date, 12,000 users comprising Community Health Officers and Doctors have
been trained to make use of this national e-platform. Presently, telemedicine
is being provided through more than 3,000 HWCs in 10 States.
Owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Health
Ministry launched the second tele-consultation service enabling
patient-to-doctor telemedicine through ‘eSanjeevaniOPD’. Offered at no cost,
this e-health service is rapidly gaining popularity as citizens in around 20
States are now consulting doctors without having to go to the hospital physically.
Around 2800 doctors have been trained and on-boarded at eSanjeevaniOPD and
every day around 250 doctors and specialists across the country provide eHealth
services despite the lockdown has been relaxed in phases. This service is
available as an Android mobile application as well. This has made it convenient
for the people to avail of the health services without having to travel. It
also ensures that the patient gets to see the doctor in around five minutes
after logging in.
As of now, out of total of 1,58,000 tele-consultations
were offered across the country - out of which, 67,000 consultations were
provided through eSanjeevani at Ayushman Bharat HWCs and 91,000 patient to
doctor consultations through eSanjeevaniOPD mode. Presently, on an average, around
5,000 consultations per day are provided through both the modes (eSanjeevani
and eSanjeevaniOPD).
The telemedicine platform is hosting over 40 online
OPDs, more than half of these are speciality OPDs which include Gynaecology,
Psychiatry, Dermatology, ENT, Ophthalmology, antiretroviral therapy (ART) for
the AIDS/HIV patients, Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) etc.
The top ten States which have registered highest
consultations through eSanjeevani and eSanjeevaniOPD platforms are Tamil Nadu
(32,035 consultations), Andhra Pradesh (28,960), Himachal Pradesh (24,527),
Uttar Pradesh (20,030), Kerala (15,988), followed by Gujarat (7127), Punjab
(4450), Rajasthan (3548), Maharashtra (3284) and Uttarakhand (2596).
The majority share in the doctor-to-doctor eSanjeevani
consultations at AB-HWCs has been of Andhra Pradesh (25,478) and Himachal
Pradesh (23,857) while Tamil Nadu leads in the patient-to-doctor eSanjeevaniOPD
services with 32,035 consultations.
In the discussion with the States, the contribution of
all the States utilizing this e-health services (eSanjeevani and eSanjeevaniOPD
platform) was lauded.The Health Minister of Tamil Nadu thanked for the support
of Health Ministry and C-DAC in the roll out of the tele-medicine platform and
highlighted the achievement of the state as registering the highest
consultations (32,035) through its online OPD services. Some best practices
followed by States were shared during the discussion viz. Andhra Pradesh has
started implementing eSanjeevani in all Panchayats / PHCs; Himachal Pradesh
already has provided many specialty services through e-OPDs; Uttar Pradesh has
registered 20,030 consultations in a short time period of one month after roll
out; Kerala successfully implemented tele-medicine services in a Jail in Palakkad
District.
Sh. Rajesh Bhushan, Union Health Secretary and other
senior officials from the Ministry were present. Dr. P. K. Khosla, Executive
Director, C-DAC and Dr. Sanjay Sood, Associate Director, C-DAC, Health
Secretaries, MD NHMs and other senior officials of invited States joined
digitally.
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