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Increasing coverage of Telemedicine in India

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The Barrier to Telemedicine in Developing Nations

Technology in itself has become a barrier in development of telemedicine. There is a high cost of replacing the older technology which they have been using for decades at affordable prices with new stakeholders, right? And there has been failure oftelemedicine network in a lot of developing nations because they really don't have solutions to how to replace the entire kind of services through modern technology. So that's one other hurdle. We do not even have enough human resources to run those services and deliver those to people. I think we need more trained professionals who are trained in probably medicine. And then we can because we need doctors at the hospital itself in the first place, that's more important.

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