The world has very few devices left to fight COVID-19 with, but technology remains one of them. Among the primary uses is telemedicine, rendered inexorable now, by the temporary paralysis brought on by a freeze on movement. It was way back in 2000 that telemedicine was first employed in India, but the progress has been excruciatingly slow, until the pandemic. However, it does seem as if the medical community was only held back by the lack of legislation to enable tele consultations. Pilot telemedicine experiments in ophthalmology and psychiatry have proven to be of immense benefit to the communities.

Source: The Hindu April 16, 2020 18:46 UTC