Chandigarh, Nov. 16 -- With 8,210 downloads in over ten years, the Gastrointestinal (GI) and Liver Emergencies App is helping doctors all over the country in dealing with GI and liver emergency cases in real time. The app is the brainchild of Dr Usha Dutta, head of gastroenterology department of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).

Dr Usha explained, every day in PGI, they have 25-30 gastrointestinal and liver cases in the emergency, who are first seen by the junior resident doctors, senior resident doctors and then the consultant. "The time a patient is brought to an emergency is critical and by the time the case goes to the consultant, critical time for diagnosis is lost. Therefore to bridge the gap b...