Context: Recently, Ministry of Defence (MoD) has launched services for home delivery of medicines for veterans and serving military personnel services under an online medical consultation platform named Services e-Health Assistance and Teleconsultation (SeHAT).

Key Points

• Under the SeHAT scheme, the medical consultations take place through video, audio and online chat.
• Safe and structured video-based clinical consultations between a doctor in a hospital and a patient within the confines of his or her home anywhere in the country have been enabled.
• It said the users do not need to pay anything to seek teleconsultation and can simply access the services.

About SeHAT Initiative

• It is the tri-services teleconsultation service of the MoD designed for all entitled personnel and their families.
• As part of the Government’s commitment to Digital India and e-Governance, the Defence Minister launched SeHAT in May 2021.
• It aims to provide healthcare services to patients in their homes.
• SeHAT Stay Home OPD is based on the lines of eSanjeevani a similar free OPD service run by the MoHFW (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) for all citizens.
• SeHATOPD is a patient to doctor system where the patient can consult a doctor remotely through the internet.