Handwritten Prescriptions OUT, Now Computerized Prescriptions MUST- Uttarakhand HC Orders
Nainital: Handwritten prescriptions may soon lose their validity in the hilly state since the Uttarakhand High Court has now passed an order directing all the medical institutions to furnish computer-generated prescriptions and medical reports to make it much more understandable to those patients and attendants, who find it difficult to decode the doctors’ infamous handwriting.
The direction has been passed by the division bench of honourable Acting Chief Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari who stated in the order,
“We direct all doctors throughout Uttarakhand in the government sector, public sector and private clinics to give computer-generated prescriptions/medical reports in order to enable the ordinary patients and their attendants to understand the same.”
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