Soon, experts
working in medical colleges will be able to share their surgical and
interventional skills with one another, with the ministry of health proposing
to set up telemedicine infrastructure in all medical colleges and institutions
to network each other under a new scheme — “e-health, including telemedicine”.
The
Central-sponsored scheme of `103.99 crore for the establishment of a National
Medical College Network (NMCN) will have about 41 government medical colleges
networked in the first phase. Under Phase I of the scheme, a
national-cum-regional resource centre, five regional resource centres and 35
other medical colleges shall be networked. To start with, national resource
centres will be started at SGPGI, Lucknow, JIPMER, Puducherry, PGIMER,
Chandigarh, KEM Medical College & Hospital, Mumbai, AIIMS, and NEIGRIHMS,
Shillong, Meghalaya.
The proposal
is that the ministry of health will run it for the initial five years, after
which the states will take over the management.
The idea is
to facilitate tele-education, access to specialist consultation and access to
electronic knowledge repositories.
The scheme
also proposes creating a digital library infrastructure for facilitating
medical researchers and knowledge seekers to have continuing education
programme.
Officials
say that the infrastructure would facilitate continued professional skill
development of human resources for health. “This will help in exchanging the
expertise and getting to know the best,” said a senior official.
The proposed
national network of medical colleges will have a central hub housing the data
centre which will be designated as the National Resource Centre (NRC).
The NRC will
be networked with five regional hubs to be called as regional resource centres
(RRCs) located at different regions of the country.
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