NEW DELHI: The digital empowerment and upskilling of ASHAs, who are India’s frontline health workers, can be pivotal in transforming the country’s rural healthcare, according to an expert.
Recruited under the National Health Mission launched in 2013, the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) create awareness in the community by educating and promoting healthy practices, and helping people access services.
Elsevier, a Dutch publisher and disseminator of scientific, technical and medical information, including over 2,900 journals such as ‘The Lancet’, collaborated with the Union government in 2022 on a digital health pilot project titled ‘Digital Innovations & Interventions for Sustainable HealthTech Action’, or ‘DIISHA’.
Source: PTI News
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