Reportedly with far higher transmission speed than 4G, the fifth generation cellular network or 5G promises to bring about dramatic changes to the way we lead our lives and how healthcare services are provided. However, also concerns regarding adverse health effects of exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with the roll out of 5G. Meanwhile the strength of radio frequency (RF) signals fields is highest at its source and as deployment of 5G would lead to more mobile antennas, there are fears of more radiation leading to poor health.
Furthermore experts are, however, of the opinion that there are not much reasons to fear as long as india follows the standards of safety set by regulatory authorities that are followed in Europe and other developed nations. Moreover on the other hand, as 5G has got some properties like very low latency and very high speed and bandwidth, it can help improve medical care.
T.V. Ramachandran President, Broadband india Forum, added "For example, if you want to do remote robotic surgery, it may takes some milliseconds for your commands to reach the recipient. And if you ask the robot to cut a particular part of the body, and if there is a delay of 10 seconds, it may cut the wrong place. But with 5G this delay which is called latency is reduced to less than 1 millisecond. So that can bring brilliant advancement in healthcare".
