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India to launch satellite exclusively for telemedicine

by Azaz Motiwala | March 18, 2005

Banglore - India plans to launch a communications satellite exclusively for health care so patients and doctors in remote rural areas can consult specialists in cities, the head of the country's space agency said on Thursday.

Healthsat, to be launched within four years, will have wireless and terrestrial communication links, G Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, told reporters.

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