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The Chennai-based Apollo Hospitals-pioneer in the field of health
care has now taken a new turn and has managed to go nuclear.
 For
the very first in India, ISRO has joined hands with the giant hospital
chain, to provide satellite links with all the Apollo Hospitals
in the country. Quite simply, any of the Apollo Hospitals in the
country can be able to reach the mother unit Chennai by simply logging
to the video conferencing facility in its respective telemedicine
room.
Thanks to the superior imaging that the 2 MBPS band width that
ISRO’s INSAT 3B Satellite provides, super specialists at Apollo,
Chennai can scrutinize live CT scans or ultrasound picture beamed
from distant Kohima or Guwahati for example, on a wide TV screen.
The vital opinion is given from the Chennai end and the doctor
at the other end can actually see and converse with his senior colleague.
That is the convergence of technology and medicine and the credit
goes to Dr.Prathap C.Reddy and his team.
In due course the satellite link will be made available to 40 locations
in the country. The ISRO provides the infrastructure, equipment
and bandwidth and Apollo extends subsidized rates to needy patients
in the rural hinterland. They can access world-class medicare at
nominal rates. And this has for long been Dr.Reddy’s aim.
 Apollo
Hospitals has now emerged as a pioneer in satellite medicine in
India and the impressive telemedicine facility at Apollo Chennai;
Dr.J.Thiruvengadam mans the mother craft from the medical side.
Apollo is equipped to set consultancy to set up telemedicine with
the experience gained over the last two years. They organized phono-surgery
earlier this month.
Now Apollo has put up a 50-bed hospital in Aragonda, a village
18 km from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh. Aragonda will be linked by
satellite to Chennai and, for a pittance; an eminent physician at
Apollo Chennai can examine a peasant from the hamlet.
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