Docs to guide needy through Kashi Kavach

Times News Network
Varanasi: Private medical practitioners associated with Indian Medical Association (IMA), Varanasi branch will provide tele-consultancy through an e-cure app —Kashi Kavach in a bid to end the problem of unavailability of medical help, especially of specialists.
The MLC AK Sharma, divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal, police commissioner A Satish Ganesh, district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma, IMA, Varanasi branch president Dr Manisha Singh Sengar and secretary Dr Rajeshwar Narain Singh formally launched the Kashi Kavach app at Circuit House after a detailed presentation by the app’s coordinator Dr Subodh Singh on Thursday. Former president of the branch Dr Sanjay Rai was assigned the task to ensure proper availability of medicines to patients.
During the presentation, Singh said that private doctors in urban and rural areas of the district will provide consultancy. The basic objective behind the launch of this app is to nip the problem in bud by starting effective treatment of patients after noticing initial symptoms of Covid-19, he said.
The app will help in checking the advancement of effects of the virus and increasing load on Covid facilities, he said adding that the problem of proper guidance by a competent doctor in post-Covid care as well as for other ailments, which is being faced by the Covid as well as non-Covid patients, will also be solved with the help of this app.
The discussions, consultancy and payment of charges will be the subject between patients and the consultant, he said adding that the list of branch members, who have already given their consent for providing tele-consultancy through this app, is available on Kashi Kavach while more doctors will be joining the app in future.