Over 1.5K avail virtual consultation with docs through tele-medicine in Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur: As most of the hospitals are closed, Guru Gorakshnath Chikitsalaya in Gorakhpur is providing tele-medicine to people in the district. Nearly 1,500 people are reportedly getting benefitted everyday by the virtual OPD service.
Director of Guru Gorakshnath Chikitsalaya, Major General Dr Atul Bajpai said, “On the instructions of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the tele-medicine service began in the hospital and daily around 1,500-1,600 people are taking doctors’ consultation and prescriptions online. Patients are mostly non-Covid patients, people in home quarantine, home isolation and those who are showing some few symptoms of Corona infection.”
Patients could consult doctors at Dr OP Rai of the medicine department- 9415258727, Dr AP Tripathi, Ophthalmic department- 9721394399, Dr Beena Shahi, gynaecology department, 9450233346.