AIIMS had earlier decided to temporarily suspend routine walk-in OPD registration of patients from March 23 as part of an effort to redirect its resources to control the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Updated:March 25, 2020, 10:18 PM IST
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New Delhi: The All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will soon begin a tele-consultation facility for its patients as it has shut down its OPD, including speciality services, and all new and follow-up patients’ registration from March 24 till further orders. The facility is likely to be operational by the end of this week.
AIIMS had earlier decided to temporarily suspend routine walk-in OPD registration of patients from March 23 as part of an effort to redirect its resources to control the COVID-19 outbreak.
“The aim of starting a tele-consultation facility is to help our follow-up patients get consultation of doctors through telephone. Several patients had appointments which are now cancelled. Besides, chronic patients can also consult doctors through this system,” AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria said.
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