Question: Recently Employees State Insurance Corporation’s (ESIC) has launched an ambitious Pilot Project of Tele-Medicine Services at how many locations?
(a) 15
(b) 14
(c) 12
(d) 11
Ans: (d)
Related facts:
- On 6 September 2016 Bandaru Dattatreya , the Minister of State for Labour and Employment inaugurated the first phase of Tele-medicine services of Employees State Insurance Corporation’s (ESIC).
- Employees State Insurance Corporation’s(ESIC) Model Hospital Basaidarapur has been connected with three ESIS dispensaries at Katihar (Bihar), Unnao (UP) and Rudarpur (Uttaranchal).
- ESIC has launched an ambitious Pilot Project of Tele-Medicine Services at 11 ESI locations.
- It was launched in coordination with C-DAC, Mohali under the aegis of “Digital Inclusive and Smart Community (DISC)” which is a part of Digital India Programmed of Government of India.
- In all, three specialized ESIC Hospitals will be connected with eight ESI Dispensaries at remote locations of the country where there are no specialized ESI healthcare services available.
- In second and third phase rest of the two Hospitals and five Dispensaries will be connected by month end thereby providing specialized health care services at the doorsteps of the IPs and their family members.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149574
http://netindian.in/news/2016/09/06/00039437/first-phase-esics-pilot-project-telemedicine-services-inaugurated