People from 50 villages around Bengaluru to benefit from affordable diagnostics
Kaggalipura: As a solution to the nation’s massive challenge of providing quality healthcare to its rural citizens, the Art of Living Kshema Telemedicine clinic is set to make a giant leap in providing affordable access to world-class healthcare for the rural population. The clinic in Kaggalipura’s Sri Sri Ayurveda Hospital was inaugurated by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Friday, the 16th of June.
This is the second such clinic set to begin operations in rural Bengaluru, with the first one launched by Gurudev less than 2 weeks ago, when he promised to open one such clinic in all four directions of rural Bengaluru. The clinic is expected to help thousands of residents of Kaggalipura and 50 nearby villages get accurate and affordable diagnostic tests.
An initiative of the Sri Sri Rural Development Program (SSRDP), the clinic will help doctors in urban areas connect with patients in remote locations and diagnose them with greater accuracy via the internet. Patients in rural Karnataka will be able to get diagnostic tests at the hospital for instant preliminary diagnosis at 20% of the cost of urban diagnostic centers.
“The telemedicine machine will deliver sustainable and efficient medical care. It is really a path-breaking solution in rural healthcare management. Apart from providing high quality diagnostic tests we will maintain patient records that will enable doctors to access the full medical history and give accurate diagnosis even from remote locations,” said Anant Koppar, the doctor who invented the machine.
