"Under the association, 80 telemedicine centres at Apollo Hospitals across the country will leverage Reliance Infocomm's nationwide chain of 240 WebWorlds in 105 cities to offer quality healthcare to people in remote areas," Prathap C Reddy, Apollo Hospitals group chairman said inaugurating the facility in New Delhi.
Reddy claimed that the tie-up would be able to reach over 90 per cent of the population across the country providing them quality healthcare virtually at their doorstep thereby reducing overcrowding at super speciality hospitals.
"By combining Reliance's 240 WebWorlds and Apollo's 80 telemedicine centres, we are creating a network few in the world can match...the WebWorlds, through video conferencing, would help patients consult the doctor and get the prescription printed at their end."
Apart from easy access of medical facility, the network would also lead to substantial savings on healthcare cost and time, Sarup Chowdhary, CEO Reliance WebWorld said.
On the investment on creating such a huge network that claims to cover 90 per cent population, Reddy said, "Our investment is in intellectual property that we have in our medical doctors."
While Chowdhary said, "Our investment is not major as we already have 240 centres in 105 cities. We have spent a few lakh of rupees to upgrade each unit according to the requirement of Apollo Group Hospitals."