India's telemedicine platform PyraMed has announced a tie-up with doctors in rural places to bring second opinion services for patients. 

The service has already been initiated in Maharashtra but being net-based, is easily available for patients all across the country.

Dr Ketan Parikh, Director, PyraMed Telemedicine explains the need for a timely second opinion in healthcare. “The human body is complex with multiple systems which are inter-related. Diseases too are not selective of only affecting one system and can impact many systems when they come to the body. The diseases can enter from one system and show symptoms from some other system. We have seen this in COVID which entered from the nose but some patients had problems with their intestine, some had issues with the lungs, others encountered liver or kidney problems and many also had problems with the brain. Medical information is expanding at a rapid pace. It is impossible for one to keep a track of all the information which is available today. So one has to use the expert’s skills to be analyse and judiciously apply for ensuring safe use of all this information,” says Parikh.

This tie-up will help in bringing together the medical and surgical opinions so that patients get an appropriate treatment based on expert advice.