Fareed A Minhas, Asad Nizami.
Tele-Psychiatry: answer to Psychiatric Rehabilitaion of Earthquake affected population in Pakistan.
J Pak Psych Soc Jan ;2(2):62-4.

Telemedicine utilizes information and telecommunications technology to transfer medical information for diagnosis, therapy and education through images, live video and audio. Past experiences as well as research have provided us significant evidence that the psychological distress and trauma induced by a disaster is the predisposing factor not only for increase in the incidence of these psychiatric ailments but it also triggers the exacerbation and relapse of previously existing conditions. Considering the prevailing consequences of the earthquake disaster in Pakistan, psychiatric rehabilitation in AJK and Northern areas through specialized health services, can be conducted using Tele-psychiatry. It is a practical and feasible way of facilitating delivery of psychiatric consultation, especially to affected areas where psychiatric facilities are virtually non-existent. A project of tele-psychiatry is proposed in this article.

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