Blast off for Bangalore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1342386,00.html
There's no money for keeping up with the superpowers, reports Randeep
Ramesh, when every satellite launch is designed to lift a poor nation
with big ideas into a hi-tech driven future
Thursday November 4, 2004
The Guardian
In an attempt to reassure, Dr P Pawar, a consultant at Hyderabad's
sleek Apollo hospital, lowers his voice and begins to ask slowly about
the pain felt by his teenage patient. Staring back at him, Lakhsmi
gives hesitant answers, looking bewildered. Once Dr Pawar finishes
taking his patient's history, he asks a colleague for a second
opinion.
Nothing unusual in this unless you consider that between doctors and
patient lies 1,000km of the Indian subcontinent. Dr Pawar and Lakhsmi
are talking to images on television screens, communicating via a
satellite network that links rural patients with doctors in hospitals
and hi-tech research centres. In doing so, the hospital is
demonstrating that India has begun to realise a core aim of its space
programme: using technology to benefit the poor.
Randeep Ramesh
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