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Thursday, Sep 22, 2005
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Alliances & Joint Ventures Apollo, Reliance Infocomm in tie up for telemedicine Our Bureaus
Chennai/Visakhapatnam , Sept. 21 THE Apollo hospitals group has tied up with Reliance Infocomm for providing telemedicine services. Today, the `Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation has 80 stations across several towns and villages. People could come to these stations and interact with specialist doctors over the Internet. The tie-up with Reliance Infocomm adds 240 Reliance WebWorlds to the network. Just as with the stations of Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation, these WebWorlds also function as centres from where tele-consultation with specialist doctors is possible. At a function held in New Delhi to announce this tie-up, Mr Sarup Chowdhary, CEO, Reliance Infocomm, said the company's optical fibre backbone connected 3,000 cities and towns. India needs telemedicine to take specialised medicare to the patients in smaller towns and cities and the Apollo group has tied up with Reliance Infocomm to address the need, Dr Pratap C. Reddy, Chairman, said.
Dr Reddy said the cost of each consultation may roughly work out to Rs 1,000-1,100 for a patient.
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