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ISRO Development In Medical Technology

Hello Dear Reader,

Today I have to give you an idea about how our Space Agency ISRO started development on Medical technology over the satellite and how it is working currently and past and how it is implementing.

Tele-Medicine (TM):

The Tele-Medicine is one of the unique and precious applications of space technology for social benefit. The ISRO TM programme, which started in 2001, has been connecting more remote, rural & medical college hospitals and mobile units through INSAT and Edusat to major specialty hospitals in cities and towns.

The Telemedicine connectivity covers the area of Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Andaman & Nicobar, and Lakshadweep Islands, North-Eastern Stastes, mainland state including tribal districts of the main-land state like as Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharastra, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, etc...

First of all, I give you a brief idea about that what is  TeleMedicine definition so it is defined as Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions.


 ISRO provides the telemedicine node systems which include the Videoconferencing & Telemedicine terminal hardware/software, Diagnostic instruments, Communication equipment (VSAT) and the Satellite bandwidth. The state governments and specialty hospitals have to allocate funds for their part of the infrastructure, manpower, and maintenance. The technology development, standards, and cost-effective systems have been evolved in association with various state governments, NGOs, specialty hospitals, and industry for bringing an understanding between the parties through the MOUs.


The Telemedicine network has been further expanded to cover the areas of mobile Tele-health and continued Medical Education (CME). Presently, in the ISRO TM network, about 382 hospitals are provided with this facility - 306 remote/rural/district/medical college hospitals and 16 Mobile Telemedicine units are connected to 60 specialty hospitals.

ISRO's effort has led to the constitution of a National Task Force by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The 'Task Force' has been working out various aspects of implementing Telemedicine in our country.

Now task to how to integrate this all the things to make one useful system so they plan to integrated services through a single hub for state networks i.e. a grid for diverse development services, with the integration of Satcom networks with existing communication infrastructure for seamless information through hybrid systems.

Village Resource Centres (VRC):  

The VRC programme was initiated by ISRO during year 2004 to facilitate overall development at the village/community level by delivering the variety of space technology-enabled products and services directly to the grassroots.

  VRCs being implemented in association with selected NGOs, Trusts, Universities, and Government agencies - are envisaged to serve as a prime delivery system in the rural areas, for the services like as vocation/non-formal education, healthcare, local weather, environment, advisories on agriculture, fisheries, livestock, livelihood support, etc..

VRCs are also able to provide a variety of other services such as information on price, market, pests & diseases, e-governance related, other ICT based services.

The first sets of VRCs were set up in Tamilnadu in association with MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai in 2004. there are 473 VRCs spread over 22 States/Union territories. there totals 44 partners/associating agencies involved in the programme. Currently novel COVID-19 this technology is used by many hospitals and states.

below show the snapshot of VRCs activities.




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