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It is no exaggeration when one hears of patients being carried on donkey cart or bullock cart for one to two days to reach the nearest district or town hospital for an ailment which could have easily been cured in the patient's home place, provided information and medical advise was available.
In this scenario, Telemedicine can prove to be very useful for the poor.

Patients in small towns are not required to waste their hard-earned money in travel and neither are they required to undergo a lot of routine tests. Telemedicine can be the cheapest, as well as the fastest way to bridge the rural-urban health divide.

The concept of Telemedicine is already prevalent in hospitals such as Apollo Hospitals, Manipal Hospital Group, but they typically use it within their own hospitals for their own patients.

Requirements for Making Telemedicine Work in any Backward Area