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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Orissa to keep infrastructure ready for telementoring

Orissa to keep infrastructure ready for telementoring

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published Published on Nov 7, 2010   modified Modified on Nov 7, 2010

Seeking to use technology optimally in health service, Orissa is planning to keep infrastructure ready for telementoring by which an experienced surgeon could guide a less experienced doctor from far-off place.

“We are aiming to have telementoring for our State. Through the system a mentor (doctor) sitting in a super speciality hospital can guide another surgeon from hundreds of kilometre away from the actual place of operation,” said B. N. Mohanty, Chief Nodal Officer of Orissa Telemedicine Network here on Sunday.

Prof. Mohanty said the proposed Telemedicine Resource Centre would be ready by the next year and subsequently the department would move Information Technology department of Government of India for necessary assistance.

“We are readying the project report on telementoring. We have already prepared guidelines for the system,” he said.

What is telementoring? Real-time images being viewed by operating surgeon can be transmitted to his mentor who would be sitting at a super speciality hospital. The experienced doctor could interact with a group of doctors present at operation theatre and guide them in critical operation. Upon availability of the facility, surgeons in the State could get guidance in the area of complex abdominal surgery, rheumatology, paediatric gastroenterology and endocrine surgery.

The nodal officer of Orissa Telemedicine Network said initially the State would take help of experts working in Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow for the telementoring programme.

Prof. Mohanty was interacting with media persons on eve of the forthcoming Sixth International Conference of Telemedicine Society of India which would be held from November 14 to 16.

He informed that implementation of the third phase of Orissa Telemedicine Network programme which sought to extend telemedicine facilities to 22 district headquarters hospitals would be completed next month.

“In the first phase telemedicine programme which was launched in 2003, three government-run medical college hospitals were connected through Satellite based technology provided Indian Space Research Organisation,” Prof. Mohanty said.

In the second phase SCB Medical College, Hospital was connected with six district headquarters hospitals at Rayagada, Koraput, Bhawanipatna, Sundargarh, Baripada and Capital Hospital at Bhubaneswar.

“During past seven years of implementation of telemedicine programme, 2,547 critical patients have been benefited while 1,432 various topics have been discussed. Besides, six batches of post graduate students have taken advantage of the teaching programme through telemedicine facility,” said Prof. Mohanty.

He said students of medicine and engineering could participate in the forthcoming conference and interact with the best experts in their respective field.


The Hindu, 8 November, 2010, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article873654.ece


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