Telangana: Telemedicine to assist Covid-hit foresters, kin

Helpline to be set up with a team of two counsellors and two doctors; service to be operational from 9 am to 6 pm

Hyderabad: Forest Department in association with Helping Hand Foundation launched telemedicine service for its staff and their family members to offer expert consultancy services during the pandemic.

Under this initiative, about 5,000 forest staff, their family members and outsourced employees will be covered.

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Principal Chief Conservator of Forest R Shobha held a video conference with Helping Hand Foundation doctors and representatives on Saturday. As part of the initiative, the Helping Hand Foundation (HHF) will be setting up a dedicated helpline with a team of two counsellors and two doctors to offer exclusive telemedicine support to staff and their family members, who test positive for Covid. The telemedical service will be operational from 9 am to 6 pm and the time period will be extended in case of emergency, she said.

More importantly, the HHF will offer free bed to staff who require mild to moderate oxygen support at the department’s isolation centre in Rajendranagar, Hyderabad.

This apart, the Foundation will assist Covid positive staff and their family members in admission, if required, at all city-based government Covid centres. The HHF will also offer orientation programme and awareness campaign to the Forest Department staff on request.

District forest officers will serve as nodal officers in respective districts in association with HHF.

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