DINDIGUL: Kasturba Hospital, a unit of Gandhigram Trust, has constituted a telemedicine centre to offer advanced medical facilities for people suffering from cancer and cardiac problems. It will deliver quality service at the doorstep of people living in remote villages.
The centre has established connectivity with the Cancer Institute in Adyar, Chennai, using tele-oncology network. Patients can directly communicate with medical experts for expert opinion. Medical records such as x-ray, scan report and biopsy images will be sent to the institute immediately, said hospital consultant R. Kousalya Devi.
After initial treatment, each cancer patient has to undergo a check-up once in three months for the first three years, once in six months for the next two years and once a year throughout lifetime.
Patients can contact the institute periodically through the network and get continuous treatment. The telemedicine centre would help patients save time and money. It would meet the medical needs of people living in the villages around Chinnalapatti. The Centre for Development of Advance Computing, functioning under the Department of Information Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, has offered the network connecting both the hospitals, Ms. Devi said.
Two doctors of Kasturba Hospital, who had undergone intensive training in telemedicine offered by the Cancer Institute, would help the patients.
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