Source: Newmai News Network / Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 22 2009:
Tele-medicine is part of the Indian army's new technology to cater to the soldiers involved in peace and war time situation in the north eastern region.
Living up to the reality where serious ailing soldiers and officers needed timely medical attention for their gruesome work, the Indian army has introduced tele-medicine in at least seven military hospitals located in the five state of the north eastern region.
Even though the Indian army has the state of art hospitals that the army in the region, there are numerous cases that has to be referred to the super speciality doctors posted in the command headquarters.
Informing about the transformation in the Army medical corp the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 101 area , Major General K.S Sethi said, "One third of the northeast military hospitals have been equipped with the sophisticated tele-medicine gadgets to attend to any serious patient".
"Be peace or war, any personnel will be attended by the super specialist from the central or zonal command headquarters in quick span and it should be from a click of the mouse", stated Major General Sethi.
Interestingly, the 101 area command that is responsible to feed all the logistic support to the entire north eastern region is respoinsible for the implementation of the high grade medical care.
The military hospital in Shillong (Meghalaya), Batistha and Guwahati (Asom), Limakong (Manipur), Dimapur (Nagaland) and Agartala (Tripura) are already equipped with these facilities and the extension to other army hospitals in the region is set to be completed by the middle of next year, informed Sethi.
While it is a well known phenomenon that soldiers in need of super care treatment succumb due to lack of specialist doctors and due to leave taken by the specialist doctors concern in the Army hospitals, Sethi said, "These are by-gone stories and every soldier will get the best treatment out of this tele-medicine".