Armed Forces Personnel to Get Tele-Medicine Services Through SeHAT OPD

Defense Minister, Rajnath Singh, has on May 27, 2021 launched ‘Services e-Health Assistance & Tele-consultation (SeHAT) OPD portal through video conferencing.

 It would offer tele-medicine services to the incumbent Armed Forces, veterans and their families. The beneficiaries will have register on the given website https://sehatopd.in/. The portal SeHAT OPD is the advanced safety features. Its trial version was made active in August last year.

“The Department of Military Affairs (DMA), Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS), Integrated Defense Staff (IDS), Centre for Development of Artificial Computing (C-DAC) Mohali and other organizations were basically engaged in developing the portal”, Singh said. The Defense Minister also said that it had always been their endeavor to provide better, faster and transparent facilities to the countrymen. While describing the portal, the Minister said, the SeHAT OPD portal is a big paradigm of innovation, mainly when the entire world is facing multiple crisis due to the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. “The portal will enable the department control growing responsibilities of the health centers. Besides the patients would be able to receive easy and efficient prescription without any contact and consultation”, He added. 

Singh also appealed the AFMS to think over to engage expert doctors in the portal so that the special treatment and expert advice could be given to the needy army personnel. It would also offer extra services and expected facilities to the Armed Forces. “In order to get noted improvement and expected services, we often need feedback from the beneficiaries”, the Defense Minister stated saying the Defense Research and Development Organization and the Armed Forces have been playing an important role in our fight the second wave of the COVID-19. Singh further appreciated the roles of the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy for carrying oxygen and other important medical devices wherever needed. The Chief of Defense Staff, Bipin Rawat, Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Karambir Singh, and Chief of Army Staff, General M M Naravane were among others who were present during the occasion.