Reaching out to serving soldiers and veterans, the government will now provide prescribed medicines at their doorsteps all over the country. It comes at a great boon to the families of the serving and retired in times of restrictions due to corona pandemic.
Announcing this major initiative here on Monday, defence ministry officials said Services e-Health Assistance and Teleconsultation (SeHAT) is the tri-services teleconsultation service of the ministry designed for all entitled personnel and their
families.
As part of the government’s commitment to Digital India and e-Governance, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched SeHAT on May 27, 2021. It is an example of innovation, especially at a time when the nation is fighting the COVID-19.
SeHAT stay home OPD is a patient-to-doctor system where the patient can consult a doctor remotely through the internet using his Smartphone, laptop, Desktop or Tablet.
Consultation occurs through video, audio and chat at the same time. It aims to provide quality healthcare services to patients from the comfort of their homes. Safe and structured video-based clinical consultations between a doctor in a hospital, and a patient within the confines of his or her home anywhere in the country, have been
enabled.
It is designed to be extremely simple and easy to use, which requires minimal effort from the users. The user does not need to pay anything to seek tele consultation and can simply access the services by visiting https://sehatopd.gov.in, or by using the SeHAT apps available on the Play store and App Stores.
Since its launch, there have been more than 10,000 successful teleconsultations on SeHAT, with a strong team of 2,000 plus doctors onboard. The feedback from the environment has been extremely heart-warming.
Furthermore, taking the healthcare delivery right to the patient’s doorsteps, Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar, took the novel initiative of providing Home Delivery or Self Pickup of Medicines to patients seeking consultation on SeHAT.
Individuals desirous of their home delivery of self-pick-up may indicate their preference while logged in. To start with, this project of Home Delivery will be started with Base Hospital Delhi Cantonment from Tuesday and will be extended to more and more stations in coming times.