CHANDIGARH: The metropolis has been unable to succeed in its goal of fifty% protection of the digital health playing cards underneath the nationwide digital health mission. Sources within the health division mentioned it was initially deliberate that no less than 50% of town’s inhabitants must be lined at first of this 12 months. Later, because of the pandemic and vaccination in opposition to the coronavirus, it was requested to decrease the protection to twenty%.
“We have been in a position to cowl 13% to fifteen% of the inhabitants until now. The digital medical file is voluntary and thus wants counselling,” mentioned Dr Amandeep Kang, director health companies, UT.
Last August, the Chandigarh administration launched the nationwide digital health mission. At the launch of the identical, it was said by UT adviser Manoj Parida that he had proposed to cowl your entire UT inhabitants inside a interval of 1 month. On the primary day of the launch, 4,000 individuals have been registered on-line and received their digital health playing cards on-line.
Sources within the UT health division mentioned there are digital medical information system within the dispensaries and wellness centres, nevertheless, the information can’t be accessed in hospitals.
