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ECHS appointment app launched

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Army veterans can book online appointment with doctors

A mobile application for scheduling ECHS appointment in Telangana and Andhra Sub-Area — TASAECHS — was launched by Major General N. Srinivas Rao, General Officer Commanding (GOC), Telangana and Andhra Sub-Area (TASA) along with Lieutenant General Paramjit Singh, Commandant, MCEME on Tuesday.

The app allows veterans to book online appointment with doctors/physiotherapists of all ECHS polyclinics in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. It also enables veterans to endorse their feedback as grievances or suggestions.

The initiative is first of its kind in the organisation with the app available for Android and can be accessible on web also at www.tasaechs.in. Director ECHS Colonel Anil Kumar explained that the project has a vast scope and the first phase is launch of appointment booking application.

Soon Centralised Information Management System and Integrated Medicine Inventory Management System will also be added to enhance efficiency, transparency and optimum utilisation of resources. Senior army officers and ex-servicemen attended the launching ceremony at the MCEME auditorium.

Later Major General N Srinivas Rao, Brigadier MD Upadhyay along with their spouses visited Military Hospital, Secunderabad and distributed sweets to the patients and wished them speedy recovery.

Brigadier Vivekanand, Commandant, Military Hospital accompanied them.

In another programme, a wreath laying ceremony was held at the Bison Division War Memorial by the Secunderabad Military station to commemorate the 70th Army Day on January 15. Maj.Gen., BD Rai, GOC, Bison Division, Maj. Gen. TSA Narayanan, Deputy Commandant, MCEME, Brigadier MD Upadhyay, Deputy GOC, TASA and Lt.Col. K.R Rao (retd) paid obeisance to martyrs and laid the wreaths in remembrance and honour of all those who made the supreme sacrifice for the country in the line of duty.

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