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The year: 2002. The hospitals are G.B. Pant Hospital in Port Blair and Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute in Chennai. The project: Linking the two to mark the beginning of the telemedicine era in India. A year ago, ISRO ran a pilot, telelinking Chennai’s Apollo Hospital with a rural facility in Andhra Pradesh. Since then, this digital format fostering fast and efficient healthcare thrived and peaked during the Covid-19 pandemic, when virtual medical visits rapidly overtook in-person consultations.
In a country like India,…
