Foundation day CME “COVID-19 and Telemedicine” was successfully conducted

The foundation day CME for Department of Telemedicine was inaugurated by Prof Jagat Ram Director, PGIMER and Prof G D Puri Dean Academics, PGIMER. They congratulated Prof Meenu Singh Head, Department of Telemedicine on this occasion and appreciated all the work that has been done during the COVID – 19.
Director emphasized the importance of Telemedicine in this pandemic Scenario. This CME was chaired by a distinguished dignitary, Dr K K Talwar health adviser Government of Punjab and Former Director, PGIMER and the organizing secretary was Dr Amit Agarwal. The CME has presided eminent speakers Dr Sanjay Sood, Project Director e-Sanjeevani who briefed the audience that during the past one year of e-Sanjeevani OPD almost 2.6 million consultations have been provided. Through Various other Telemedicine platforms run by the Government of India, consultations have touched the 4 million mark. E Sanjeevani provides both doctors to doctor as well as doctor-to-patient consultations.
Dr Sood shed light on a future projects such as SEHAT OPD, e Arogya Bharti and the national HIV AIDS Telemedicine network which is the first in the world. The first panel discussion was chaired Dr Savita Malhotra Former Dean PGIMER and talks were given by Shri R K Saboo Past Rotary International President, Dr Vinayak M Prasad Senior Advisor, WHO, Geneva and Shri Anoop Kumar Gupta Principal Consultant, eVBAB Project, Ministry of External Affairs.
The discussion was centered on role of national and international Telemedicine agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second Panel discussion was Chaired by Col. Dr. Ashvini Goel, President TSI and the speakers were Dr Sunil Shroff Founder and Director MOHAN Foundation President TSI-Tamilnadu, Dr Murthy Remilla Hon. Secretary, TSI and Ms Bagmisikha Puhan Legal Expert technology Law Member EC TSI. The panel discussion was regarding Telemedicine practice guidelines.
This followed talks by Dr Ravi Chittoria, Nodal Officer, Regional Resource Centre (Southern Region) JIPMER, Puducherry and Dr N. K Agarwal on Telemedicine activities in the NMCN project during COVID era and Clinical Application of Telemedicine respectively. These sessions was chaired by Dr S K Mishra, Dean SGPGI Lucknow and Dr Biman Saikia from PGI Chandigarh. The CME concluded by a lecture on role of health informatics in healthcare given by Dr Nishant Jaiswal Research Associate HEHTA, Institute of Health and well Being, University of Glasgow. This session was chaired by Dr Nusrat Shafiq PGI, Chandigarh. Dr Meenu Singh gave the concluding remarks and thanks to all the dignitaries for their supports.