Tele-medicine service for those in home quarantine in Chennai starts today
The Hindu
Corporation hires 135 doctors to offer assistance to COVID-19 patients
Starting Saturday, doctors will provide tele-medicine services to all COVID-19 patients under home quarantine in the 15 zones of the city. Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi on Friday announced that 135 doctors had been hired for a period of three months. A total of 300 doctors would be hired to provide tele-medicine services for over 30,000 COVID-19 patients in home quarantine. The remaining doctors were expected to join shortly. Each doctor is expected to call patients at least once a day to provide the services free of cost. According to data compiled by the Greater Chennai Corporation, over 4% of the patients under home quarantine have requested ambulances through the call centre in Adyar zone, which was the first professionally managed facility among the 15 zones. Other zones will start call centres shortly.
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