People have been switching to online for medical consultation, with healthcare infrastructure in India coming under immense pressure due to the coronavirus pandemic. There has been a 500 per cent growth in online medical consultations between March-May 2020, healthcare aggregator Practo said in a report.
While 50 million Indians accessed healthcare through telemedicine during the lockdown period, 80 per cent of all users were first-timers.
The report titled, "How India accessed healthcare", points out that 67 per cent of the consultations resulted in in-person visits by doctors.
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