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KLES hospital to launch tele-health project

Belgaum: Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Basavaraj Horatti will inaugurate the KLES Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Centre’s “Mobile Rural Tele-health Project” here on Monday.

According to a press release issued here on Saturday by Chief Executive Officer of the hospital M.V. Jali, the mobile VSAT-based telemedicine facility would help in conducting health check-ups in rural and remote areas with tele-consultation specialists sitting in KLE Hospital in Belgaum.

The project cost was Rs. 35 lakh and co-sponsored by Canara Bank (which contributed Rs. 7.5 lakh), ISRO and BSNL.

He claimed that the project was the first of its kind in the country using privately managed satellite services.

The hospital first launched its telemedicine and tele-health project last year.

It was inaugurated by Stanely Edlavitch, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of epidemiology Research, University of Missouri-Kanas City, U.S.A., here on January 25, 2006.

The project aims at connecting primary health centres and hospitals in rural areas with the KLE Hospital and thereby extend latter’s health services to rural areas.

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