Chandigarh launches digital health card, 4K register on Day 1

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 19

The UT Administration today launched the National Digital Health Mission in the city. Under the scheme, each resident will get a digital health card.

A formal launch took place at the Punjab Raj Bhawan in which UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore got the first digital health card.

UT Adviser Manoj Parida said on the first day itself, 4,000 persons registered online and got their digital health cards online.

Parida said he proposed to cover the entire population of the UT within one month.

During the war room meeting, the Administrator directed the PGI, the Director General of Police, the MC Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner to ensure that all employees working under them register and get their digital cards made within a week.

Dr G Diwan, Director, Health Services, who is also the nodal officer under the National Digital Health Mission for Chandigarh, stated that a special drive would be launched in all sectors to ensure that every resident got his medical card.

Apart from citizens, the digital data will contain the details of doctors, their qualifications and medical infrastructure available for the citizens in the city. In future, it will be linked to e-pharmacy and telemedicine too. The digital medical card will enable the doctors to look at the medical history of each person at the click of a button.

Necessary care will be taken to ensure the privacy of the data and the medical information of the card holders.

Parida said Chandigarh would be the first to cover the entire population with digital health cards. It would also help in better implementation of the AYUSH scheme, he added.

The scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day.