Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar took the initiative of providing Home Delivery or Self Pickup of Medicines to patients seeking consultation on SeHAT from today.
This project of Home Delivery is started with Base Hospital Delhi Cantt from Feb 1, 2022, and would be extended to more and more stations in coming times.
Services e-Health Assistance and Teleconsultation (SeHAT) is a tri-services teleconsultation service of the MoD designed for all entitled personnel and their families. This service is put together as a part of the Government’s commitment to Digital India and e-Governance. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched SeHAT on 27 May 2021.
As one of the features of this service, SeHAT ‘stays 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. The consultation happened virtually via video, audio and chat at the same time. It aims to provide quality healthcare services to patients from the comfort of their homes.
Additionally, the service is designed to be extremely simple and easy to use. The users do not need to pay anything to seek teleconsultation and can simply access the services by visiting https://sehatopd.gov.in, or by using the SeHAT app available on the Play store & App Stores.
Since its launch, there have been more than 10,000 successful teleconsultations on SeHAT, with a strong team of 2000 plus doctors onboard.
