Deployment of telemedicine as another mitigation tool during the COVID-19 pandemic in India

doi:10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100167

. 2021 Nov:2:100167.

doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100167. Epub 2021 Jul 29.

Deployment of telemedicine as another mitigation tool during the COVID-19 pandemic in India

Payal Das¹, Amit Sharma²

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¹ Department of Zoology, Delhi University, North Campus, India.
² International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110 067, India.

PMID: 34341782
PMCID: PMC8320397
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100167

Deployment of telemedicine as another mitigation tool during the COVID-19 pandemic in India

Payal Das et al. Public Health Pract (Oxf). 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov:2:100167.

doi: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100167. Epub 2021 Jul 29.

Authors

Payal Das¹, Amit Sharma²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology, Delhi University, North Campus, India.
² International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110 067, India.

PMID: 34341782
PMCID: PMC8320397
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100167

Abstract

Healthcare systems in resource scarce countries continue to face unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including saturation of healthcare system capacities. Data suggest that medical staff deployed for COVID-19 containment are at higher risk of exposure and thus greater susceptibility to infection, further decreasing the available workforce. Telemedicine, as an additional healthcare delivery approach, can circumvent hospital visits of non-critical COVID-19 patients and thus reduce exposure of both providers and non-COVID-19 patients. Widespread implementation of telemedicine at this watershed moment for healthcare system in India will establish a new public health delivery alternative that can cater to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Keywords: COVID-19; Healthcare; India; Telemedicine; Wave.

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