Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Friday virtually inaugurated the Tele-Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) in Ballari district.
The Department of Health and Family Welfare in assistance with Vinod Khosla Family Foundation has established a Tele-ICU hub at VIMS to provide quality healthcare services to the poor sections and avoid referring the patients to far places for higher treatments.
A team of expert doctors and trained nurses will remotely supervise and provide treatment with real-time; the tele-ICU facilities will also be extended to taluk hospitals in parts of Kalyana Karnataka region including Sandur, Siruguppa, Hospet, Yelburga, Lingsugur, Sindhanur,Shahapur, Basavakalyan, Aland, Jewargi and Yadgir hospitals.