Following the Union government’s approval of the long-pending guidelines for telemedicine in the wake of COVID-19, the Telemedicine Society of India-Tamil Nadu Chapter (TSI-TN) has said that it will offer teleconsultation to patients free of cost until the situation improved. Sunil Shroff, president, TSI-TN, said the society was planning an online training for doctors on the telemedicine guidelines in the next few days. He added that while around 40 doctors are already available through TSI-TN to offer consultation, he expected the numbers to significantly go up soon. Dr. Ganapathy said the plan was to reach out to at least 50,000 doctors through the training. He said that patients could access TSI-TN’s website to know contact details of hospitals and doctors available for teleconsultation.

Source: The Hindu March 29, 2020 18:11 UTC