The patients in rural India are worst affected due to non-availability of specialists along with prompt and accurate diagnostics to manage the disease early. In spite of huge effort by the government, it had become almost impossible to reach specialist care to rural population where most India lives. With huge shortage of specialists or super specialists (just because our medical colleges do not produce as many numbers yet), this problem of availability of clinicians (even GPs) will continue to remain for long time. Wrong treatment of disease at an early stage creates huge social burden for patients or government and over all on society. This also prompts quack practice which is a huge menace in the country to suck money from innocent patients.
Virtual Clinic “ a social initiative by Dr. Vijay Pethkar “ is one significant step towards mitigating this health and social crisis. Our attempt is to bring a reasonable level of care as close as possible to patient by leveraging technology.