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The Nilgiris gets tele-medicine facility

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The Chief Executive Officer, Nankem Hospital, N.K. Chandrashekar (right), explaining the benefits of tele-medicine to the Coonoor Municipal Chairman, M. Ramasamy. —

Udhagamandalam: A long-felt need of this small and hilly district was fulfilled on Thursday with tele-medicine facility coming into being at the 30-year-old Nankem Hospital in Coonoor.

Speaking to ‘The Hindu’, the Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, N.K. Chandrashekar, said that it was the first of its kind in the Nilgiris.

It had been set up at a cost of Rs. 6 lakh, he said and added that over the last two months it had been subjected to a number of tests.

Stating that often those in need of special medical assistance went to the plains by incurring a great deal of expenditure and putting up with inconveniences of a varied kinds, he added that the main objective of introducing the tele-medicine facility was to meet the medical requirements of the people here in a more efficient and less time consuming manner.

Pointing out that it facilitates connecting small hill stations like Coonoor with super speciality hospitals across the country, the Chief Executive Officer said that among them were the K.G. Hospital in Coimbatore, Asian Heart Hospital in Mumbai and the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Hospital in New Delhi. The time-tested procedure had brought specialists and patients closer, Dr. Chandrashekar said and claimed that a majority of healthcare problems could be managed by doctors staying in far away places with tele-medicine links.

Coonoor Municipal Chairman M. Ramasamy, who inaugurated the facility at the hospital, said that it would provide a fillip to healthcare in the Nilgiris and hoped that people would make optimum use of it.

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