JIPMER declared National Data Recovery Centre for telemedicine

JIPMER, a premier medical institution in the Central sector in the Union Territory has been declared as a National Data Recovery Centre (NDRC) for telemedicine by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry.

JIPMER Director S C Parija in a statement said the Health Ministry had already declared it as a regional resource centre for telemedicine for all medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Telangana.

Fully equipped with infrastructure, it had been declared to be the NDRC for telemedicine, which would recover country's data regarding telemedicine from the institute in the event of loss of data, he said.
 
Parija said the project would be supported by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry.