Open AccessAdoption Of Telemedicine -need of the hour
Author(s) -
Sridhar Chitturi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical sciences/journal of medical sciences (srinagar. online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-063X
pISSN - 0972-110X
DOI - 10.33883/jms.v23i3.780
Subject(s) - telemedicine , medicine , northern territory , pandemic , health care , covid-19 , darwin (adl) , population , medical emergency , economic growth , environmental health , geography , archaeology , engineering , disease , pathology , systems engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics
I would like to describe our experience in telemedicine for the provision of health care in the Northern Territory of Australia and its relevance for the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Northern Territory is a large landmass spread over 1.4 million square kilometers with a population of only 250,000. Major healthcare facilities are located in cities of Darwin and Alice Springs with smaller hospitals in Katherine, Gove, and Tennant Creek. Many small communities are located in remote areas with limited access to health care. We have adopted telemedicine more than a decade ago and gradually scaled up the services which came handy during the latest pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2.