Enactus IIT Ropar, has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Patient Planet, to open telemedicine center across Punjab. They are planning to open up its third telemedicine center in Dugri village on January 26,  2017 and will soon expand and reach out to pan India. This collaboration will help in providing healthcare facilities to the remote villages in India.

The company has recently completed four years of operations, with the mission of bringing change in the society, students and professors of IIT Ropar took a step forward and laid the foundation of Enactus IIT Ropar in January 2012.

Dr. Balwinder Sodhi, assistant professor in department of computer science engineering at IIT Ropar and Dr. Navin Kumar, assistant professor at department of mechanical engineering IIT Ropar lead the entire team of Enactus IIT Ropar since its inception.

Dhanesh Kumar, Team Leader Enactus, IIT Ropar says,. “We look forward to deepening our relationship and expanding our collaboration as we seek to address the significant health care needs in the Punjab region.”

The telemedicine center offers ECG, Optometry facilities to serve more than 12,000 persons of cluster formed around Dugri village. The profits earned by the collaboration will be taken used to open similar telemedicine centres in pan India and make E-Swasthya a sustainable and affordable product for needy ones.

E – Swasthya center, one of the most exhilarating projects is a telemedicine centre where patients from remote villages will be provided with specialized medical facilities through video calling. Under this project they have successfully launched two telemedicine centers one in Anandpur Sahib and another in Nurpur Bedi linking it to the Ropar civil hospital.

Arnab Paul, CEO, Patient Planet says, “This is a great opportunity to combine our expertise with bright young minds from IIT Ropar to devise and deploy solutions tailored for rural India and to become frontrunners in the digital health movement in India”

“By joining forces with them, we expect to achieve synergies in our studies to secure next-generation technologies.” said Saurabh Dhole, CTO, Patient Planet.