The Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has launched a mobile enabled medical video consultation service ‘Paramarsh’ for its beneficiaries in Bihar and Himachal Pradesh on a pilot basis.
For this, ESIC has collaborated with MTL, wholly owned subsidiary of MTNL to roll out the state-of-the-art, low-cost mobile base video solution that would enable doctors at ESIC dispensaries to directly call specialists at ESIC hospitals, enabling the beneficiaries to do consultation for non-emergency cases without travelling to concerned hospital.
This project is expected to bring immense benefits in terms of cheap and quality health care for the beneficiaries, resulting in saving their time, money and effort. Mr R. K. Bhardwaj, Member of ESI Corporation (Employers’ representative) inaugurated the Mobile Video Consultation at ESI Hospital, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh whereas Mr C. P. Singh, Member of ESI Corporation (Employees’ representative) inaugurated it from ESI Hospital, Phulwarishariff, Patna, Bihar.
This whole programme was monitored by ESIC DG Deepak Kumar from the headquarters in Delhi. He said the project could be extended throughout India in its second phase and, later on, the Insured Persons may directly connect through video calls to specialist doctors in the third phase.