New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya addressed the G7 Ministerial assembly on Health Innovation in Nagasaki, Japan on Sunday.
The assembly was held to debate the priorities, implementation and utilization of well being improvements like digital well being in the direction of guaranteeing Universal Health Coverage.
Health Ministers of the G7 international locations and invited “Outreach 4” international locations of India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand participated within the assembly.
Speaking on the event, Dr Mandaviya stated, “Use of technology and Digital Health Tools are an enabler and equalizer which can facilitate strengthened health service delivery and aid in the achievement of Universal Health Coverage. The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed the use of technology in health service delivery and also highlighted the need to focus on an enabling framework to bridge the digital divide across the countries specifically amongst low-and-middle-income countries.”Highlighting India’s achievements in Digital Health, the Union Health Minister stated, “India’s COVID-19 vaccine delivery platform, Co-WIN has monitored the administration of over 2.2 billion vaccine doses across the length and breadth of the country and monitored not only cold chain management but also facilitated citizens and vaccinators in administration of the vaccines besides providing a QR code based digital vaccine certificate”.
“Similarly, eSanjeevani, a National telemedicine platform, launched during the pandemic has already coordinated more than 115 million, free of cost, consultations to the citizens, making it the world’s biggest telemedicine platform”, he added.
Emphasizing the necessity to embrace the benefits supplied by new and evolving instruments, Dr Mandaviya highlighted that synthetic intelligence, good wearables and large knowledge analytics can assist precision medication, customized healthcare, genomics, and Clinical Decision Support Systems, guaranteeing the suitable remedy to the suitable individual on the proper time.
He additionally underlined the significance of guaranteeing the supply of those technological instruments and acknowledged, “India has already taken a policy decision to provide all such digital tools free of cost to the world as Digital Public Goods.”Dr Mandaviya additionally acknowledged that India’s G20 Presidency has introduced digital well being as a particular precedence and has proposed the convergence mechanisms of all digital initiatives internationally by way of the formation of the Global Initiative on Digital Health housed at World Health Organization HQ.
He acknowledged that this initiative with a network-of-network strategy can be essential in bridging the worldwide digital divide and urged the help of G7 international locations for the proposed initiative on this regard. (ANI)