Sehat - Telemedicine initiative

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Sehat is short form of Social Endeavour for Health and Telemedicine.
Sehat is a pan-India health initiative in line with its Digital India vision launched by the government.
The initiative will be run in collaboration with Apollo Hospitals.
It aims to connect 60,000 common service centres (CSCs) across the country and provide healthcare access to citizens irrespective of their geographical location.
Under the service, people can visit CSCs and fix an appointment for seeking expert consultancy with a doctor.
The doctors at Apollo Hospitals will be able to provide consultancy to the patients using the video link facilities.
The Digital India initiative is an umbrella programme that seeks to build digital infrastructure, provide government service on the web and mobile platforms and digitally empower all the citizens with an estimated investment ofRs.1.13 trillion over the next three to five years.
One of the targets of Digital India is to connect all the villages at the panchayat level through some 250,000 common service centres that will act as access points for delivery of various government services to citizens.

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