Covid-19: Tele-consultations pick up as patients avoid visiting hospitals

As the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 continues to cripple normal life, an increasing number of patients are preferring to consult with the doctors over video and audio calls. This is also promoting an increasing number of hospitals and clinics to invest in technology infrastructure for establishing tele-consultation units.

The Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, a maternity, childcare and fertility care group of hospitals has announced the launch of its tele-consultation service with doctors. This service has been made available across Gurgaon, Noida, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Chennai units of Cloudnine. “It’s our Baby,” a dedicated app