14-Jan-2024 11:49 PM
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Jammu, Jan 14 (Reporter) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Sunday launched state-of-the-art, Artificial Intelligence (AI) supported Telemedicine Mobile Clinic "Aarogya-Doctors on Wheels" and laid the foundation stone of the much awaited, vital road project in Udhampur-Ramnagar sector from Ramnagar to Roun Domail in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The latest upgraded Tele Clinic is Artificial Intelligence-driven to provide health care facilities in far flung areas of the where such facilities are either not available or inadequately available, he said.
Dr Singh explained that "Aarogya" functions on the latest methodology wherein a patient can narrate his illness or complaint in his native language and the AI doctor understands the language and responds to the patient in the same language.
He said afterwards, the patient is connected to one of the leading super specialists in the country as this telemedicine hospital has been tied up with some of the leading hospitals in the country.
The Minister said that Prime Minister Narendra has made a firm resolve to provide healthcare facilities to the remotest parts of the country, harnessing the latest technological developments. The present initiative is also inspired by that ,he said.
Dr Singh appealed to local people to avail the facility, saying that through this latest super speciality hospital, doctors are coming to their doorsteps.
Meanwhile, Dr Singh after laying the foundation stone of the Roun Domail project said the vital connectivity project, with an outlay of Rs 22.96 crore rupees, had got caught up in litigation for a long time.
But, due to the personal efforts of Dr Jitendra Singh, the litigation was sorted out and the foundation stone of the road was laid.
The Minister said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, road connectivity has been ensured in the remotest regions of the hill district of Udhampur.
Dr Singh recalled that the PMGSY began under the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but the next 15 years till 2014, the total length of PMGSY roads built in the country was just about 3.7 lakh kilometres, whereas in the last nine and a half years under Prime Minister Modi, the total length has doubled to more than 8 lakh kilometres. Dr Jitendra Singh Udhampur has figured among the first three top PMGSY road projects in all the districts of the country.
He lamented that this region had not received the kind of attention it deserved from previous governments.
But, since Prime Minister Modi had committed that his government will develop all regions equitably and bring it at par with developed regions.
Dr Singh said that under the patronage of Modi, the government has been able to upgrade all those facilities to remote areas which people had never imagined before.
Dr Jitendra Singh informed that his constituency is the only one which got two Vande Bharat Express trains, three Centrally-funded medical colleges, other Centrally-funded multiple projects, including Devika River Rejuvenation project, Katra-Delhi Express road corridor, north India’s first Industrial Biotech Park, national level Shahpur Kandi Irrigation project...////...