Telemedicine Project to Help Treat Wounded Navy Personnel on Ships

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Telemedicine project to help treat wounded Navy personnel on ships - The Economic Times
By PTI

Published: 17th May 2015 10:30 AM

NEW DELHI: Treating severely wounded personnel on board Indian Navy ships will be easier now as specialists sitting far away can advise the best possible treatment through video-conferencing via India's military satellite 'Rukmini'.

The government has recently sanctioned a Rs 61.59-crore telemedicine project for the Navy. "It would bring a revolutionary change in attending to severely injured patients in remote locations where a specialist is not available," a senior Navy official said. Explaining the concept, he said while a doctor and a medical team is always on board when a ship sails out,Mspecialists are available mainly on the bases.

"At present, if there is an accident and a person is severely injured, he is stabilised and taken by air to the command hospital or is transferred to a bigger ship if one is available. "With telemedicine, a super specialists like a neurosurgeon can see the reports and other details on his computer and give step by step directions to the general doctor on board via video conferencing," the official said.

The Navy at present has 133 ships, over 200 aircraft and 13 submarines. The force has a strength of 600 doctors, of which specialists would be around 300 and super-specialists around 100. While doctors are on board the ships, the specialist and super-specialists are mostly based on land. The Navy currently has three medical facilities on land. The main is INS Ashwini in Mumbai which has the status of a Command Hospital. The other two are INS Sanjivani in Kerala and INS Kalyani in Visakhapatnam.

"Telemedicine would be facilitated through Rukmini," Navy sources said.

 

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Wish GOI start some initiative lIke this for paramilitary personnels also. They are the one posted in most hostile terrain.
Hundred of CRPF personnel dies due to inadequate medical facilities. Most of the CRPF injured in action personnel die due to lack of medical facility. Dying to buy Rafael, Super power Indian Air force is scared to evacuate from hostile zone and GOI is not in mood to give CRPF its own helicopters. In such cases jawan make makeshift strechers using tree branches and carry them for as long as 40 km on shoulders to the nearest CRPF Camp.

Of all worst affected paramilitary is ITBP. They are manning Indo-China border where temperature is as less as Siachien. Just only their hostile locations are not in media like Siachien nobody gives a flying fcuk about those poor souls. Most of deaths in ITBP are because of extreme cold conditions like frost bite and avalanches.

In Rann of Kutch, Gujrat where BSF is deployed water is carried twice a day in tanker for forward post. It is a salty swamp area near ocean stretched 100 of kilometers. With only sign of life, in form of these BSF soilders deployed not even a twig grows there. 90% personnels here have charred lips which bleeds continuously due to salty winds flowingin that area.

 

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INS Ashwini in Mumbai which has the status of a Command Hospital

INS Sanjivani in Kerala