ESIC's telemedicine project launched

Hyderabad: Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya inaugurated the country's first telemedicine project of the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) here.

The project has been launched in collaboration with Bhubaneswar-based Odisha Trust of Technical Education and Training (OTTET), in public-private-partnership mode at ESIC Hospital and Medical College in Sanathnagar here which will be connected with ESIC dispensaries in the country, a release said.

Besides Dattatreya, the Union MoS for Labour and Employment, Telangana Home and Labour Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy participated in the programme, it added.