Rapti Health Science Academy Launches Telemedicine Service

Dang. Rapti Health Science Academy has started telemedicine service with the objective of bringing specialist health services within the reach of common citizens through technology. On the first day of the service launch, Dr. Sanjay Poudel of the Internal Medicine department of the academy provided health consultation through telemedicine for the first time at the request of Shivraj Hospital.

The academy has stated that it will coordinate and collaborate with its satellite hospitals and community health institutions to operate this service regularly and systematically. For this, a regular consultation schedule of specialist doctors working in various departments and branches of the academy has been prepared and arrangements have been made to operate the telemedicine service room daily. The academy will gradually expand the service to the remote districts of Lumbini Province in the coming days, informed Professor Shyam Lamsal, Registrar of the academy.