Monday, Oct 06, 2008
The National Institute of Technology – Tiruchi has evinced interest in starting a Centre for Telemedicine.

The proposal emerged during a recent workshop on ‘Telemedicine’ organised recently by the Institute under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP).


The Institute Director M. Chidambaram announced that facilities would be created for the purpose. The Telemedicine Division of the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Telemedicine Society of India have offered support to the Institute for establishing the Centre.

ISRO provides telecommunication network assistance to institutes with potential while the Telemedicine Society renders expert knowledge.

The convergence of medical and engineering sciences is vital in the current scenario to make ‘health for all’ a possibility, according to S. Raghavan and N. Sivakumaran, Workshop Coordinators.

During the day-long workshop, an Outside Broadcast Satellite Medical Van belonging to the Aravind Eye Hospital was stationed at the Institute and participants were exposed to demonstrations of live eye consultations, diagnosis and therapeutics.