A Critical Analysis of Socio-Legal Implicatio...

A Critical Analysis of Socio-Legal Implications of Telemedicine in India

Author Name : Pooja Ogale

INTRODUCTION The healthcare sector in India has various challenges in it but one of the major challenges is access to healthcare. Factors such as geographical location, lack of infrastructure, low ratio of medical professionals to that of the population of the country, natural disasters, and pandemics are often responsible for the inaccessibility to healthcare. In India the immense geographical area, rural population, and sound medicinal services overwhelmingly accessible in urban areas, telemedicine has immense potential to grow from its early stages.Recently, in the year 2019 when the world witnessed the COVID-19 pandemic, accessibility to healthcare emerged as a major challenge for almost all the countries around the world. This situation prompted the nations to devise a mechanism to provide medical help and assistance to the people