Telemedicine is a handy help to the populace of Polpol village where this facility is available at the health and wellness centre at Polpol across the national highway 75.
On Wednesday the regional deputy director health services Palamu John F Kennedy made a surprise visit to this health and wellness center at Polpol where as he said he found a 35 year old woman Sushma Devi in conversation with a lady doctor of Apollo hospital Hyderabad through video conferencing.
Kennedy said the woman narrated her knee pain complaint at length. The lady doctor on the other side assured her of her name of medicine coming to her through the net.
Vijay Kumar, the lab technician handling this tele medicine at health and wellness center at Polpol said on an average thirty patients a day seek advice from Apollo hospital Hyderabad.
This health and wellness center has a moderate stock of medicines. Kennedy said he found some medicines here having a close date of expiry about which he said Toppo has been asked to see that medicines reach the needy patients and not expire on the desk.
Pregnant women also find this centre good for them as here a dozen deliveries are claimed to be conducted a month.
A young computer operator Shewta Kumari, a contractual employee of an outsourcing agency Balaji Detective working here said she has been unpaid since May.
Polpol health and wellness center has hygiene and cleanliness in order.