Sick of Bad Handwriting, HC directs 3 doctors to pay Rs 5000 penalty
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The court is pained at recording in every case that the medical report is summoned for reference for effective adjudication, the handwriting of the Doctor in the report is not readable.
Lucknow: Sickened by the illegible contents on a medico-legal reports, the Allahabad High Court recently imposed a fine of Rs 5000 on three medical practitioners, the writers of such reports in different cases, holding them liable for creating hindrance in judicial work
The court also pulled up the Principal Secretary, Home, U.P., Principal Secretary Medical and Health Services U.P. Lucknow and Director General Medical and Health Services U.P. Lucknow asking them to ensure compliance of 2012 circular that directs doctors to make clear and comprehensive medico-legal reports.
"The medico legal report, if given clearly, can either endorse the incident as given by the eye witnesses or can disprove the incident to a great extent. This is only possible if a detailed and clear medico legal report is furnished by the doctors, with complete responsibility. The medical reports, however, are written in such shabby handwriting that they are not readable and decipherable by advocates or Judges. It is to be considered that the Medico Legal reports and Post Mortem Reports are prepared to assist the persons involved in dispensation of criminal justice. If such a report is readable by medical practitioners only, it shall not serve the purpose for which it is made. This is despite the fact that computers are available in all medical facilities. In some of the States, practice is being followed where medico legal reports and post mortem reports are made on computers/printers."
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