Kathmandu, Feb. 3
eSewa and Cogent Health have forged collaboration to
provide the facility of online appointment services at
different hospitals of Nepal.
Patients can book appointments for the OPD
consultations from a doctor of various five hospitals in Kathmandu, Pokhara and
Tulsipur, the companies said in a statement on Thursday.
Everest Hospital Pvt. Ltd New Baneshwor and Ishan
Children and Women's Hospital Basundhara in Kathmandu, Mediplus Hospital and
Trauma Centre in Pokhara and Rapti Life Care Hospital in Tulsipur are the
hospitals that joined the online appointment platform. These hospitals had
earlier joined Cogent Health’s e-Appointment platform integrated with eSewa.
“Patients of these hospitals as well as general public
will now be able to book appointments for OPD consultations from within eSewa
mobile wallet app and make instant payments digitally,” read the statement.
The patients will no longer have to be physically
present at the hospital and wait on the queue for booking appointments and
making the payments of consultation, so the service is also expected to help
reduce the associated risks posed by the current COVID-19 pandemic due to overcrowding
at hospitals and healthcare institutions, it said.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 4 February 2022.
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