Physicians to launch SMS service to help doctors in rural areas

The Association of Physicians of India is planning to launch a special all India short message service in Gurgaon in February which would give doctors serving in rural areas a chance to update their medical knowledge. This special service will be launched during the 70th annual conference of The Association of Physicians of India— APICON

The Association of Physicians of India is planning to launch a special all India short message service in Gurgaon in February which would give doctors serving in rural areas a chance to update their medical knowledge.

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This special service will be launched during the 70th annual conference of The Association of Physicians of India— APICON 2015. The association has created a database for this service.

According to Rajesh Upadhyay, chairman, scientific committee, APICON, “The service will form a network of doctors in the country where they can interact with each other and update themselves with latest developments in medicine and improve their diagnostic skills. The service will play a big role in connection the doctors in the rural areas with the super speciality doctors in the city as they barely get a chance to attend medical conferences and are away from the digital world.”

The Association of Physicians of India held a brief introductory session on the four- day medical conference at Leisure Valley on Sunday. The conference is based on the theme ‘optimising patient care’ and will start from February 19-22 at the same venue.

Around 15,000 doctors from all across India and abroad will attend 260 lectures and 1,000 research papers would be read.