COVID 19 pandemic is one of the most severe kind of disease pandemic that affected the worldwide population. It is caused by SARS CoV 2 virus. The symptoms range from sore throat, runny nose, fever, fatigue, breathing difficulty and respiratory failure.
The disease is very contagious and affected vast majority of the population. This led to increased demands of health care services. Increase in rate of outpatient and inpatient numbers quickly grow due to coronavirus infection. Also in order to isolate those infected and the close contacts resulted in increased occupancy at healthcare centers. The Healthcare workers also had to work under great pressure and stress due to increased workload.
In such times introduction of telehealth proved to be very beneficial. Telehealth is the use of technology to communicate with the healthcare workers while siting far away. Telehealth services includes mobile phones, telephone, computers, laptops and tabs to chat, call and message healthcare workers for health consultations. Telehealth allowed to quarantine asymptomatic and those with mild symptoms at home. Through telehealth doctors could consult and provide medication prescription to such people. It also helped avoiding contact with the infected. Telehealth also helped other patients to consult their respective physician and healthcare workers by siting at home and avoiding hospitals visits. This prevented unwanted contact with the coronavirus patients. Telehealth improved the access to healthcare during COVID 19.
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