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Dr. Randeep Guleria
Chairman of Internal Medicine, Medanta and former Director, AIIMS

eSanjeevani App: Bringing Healthcare to
Your Doorsteps

India, during the COVID-19 additional expenses in travel
pandemic, became a flag- and lodging in larger cities, as
bearer of innovation. While even well as losing wages. They can
the most developed countries now easily obtain consultations
of the world were struggling, and follow-ups from the comfort
India came up with various of their own homes by using
innovations to make healthcare the app. It has also benefited
services more accessible to patients suffering from chronic
the citizens. Today, India's illnesses such as diabetes, high
healthcare sector is undergoing blood pressure, kidney problems,
a massive transformation and and so on. Non-communicable
eSanjeevani is at the forefront diseases are on the rise in India,
of this change. With its outreach and they necessitate frequent
extending to the whole nation, check-ups. eSanjeevani has
eSanjeevani is helping people solved this issue by bringing
consult experts from the big healthcare to their homes.
cities without physically traveling Along with many benefits,
to the hospitals. the eSanjeevani app has
This is especially beneficial addressed one of our country's
for people residing in the rural most pressing healthcare
areas, who previously had challenges: shortage of doctors
to travel to distant locations in the rural and remote areas.
for consultation, incurring The density of doctors in the

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