MP: Doctors told to mandatorily sign OPD prescription with seal, mobile number
Bhopal: Doctors in Madhya Pradesh have been directed to put their signature, seal, and mobile number on the OPD prescription of patients. Further, in place of OD (once a day) and BD (twice a day), the time of intake has to be written in Hindi along with the medicine by the medical practitioners so that patients can have a better idea of the line of treatment.
The direction came from the State Medical Education Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Vishwas Sarang, who was on an inspection of Gandhi Medical College (GMC)-associated Hamidia hospital. The facility has been under strict observation following the death of three Corona patients due to the power outage a month ago.
In view of the past incident, the Minister recently paid a surprise visit and took stock of the situation. He made observations regarding the sanitation, medicine distribution system, and OPD registration procedures, blood bank and instructed to streamline the same.
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Prominently, the Minister instructed the doctors at the Hamidia hospital to write the pattern of medicine intake (timing and frequency) clearly in Hindi on the prescriptions as common patients do not understand the abbreviations OD (once a day) and BD (twice a day) and so forth. Instead, the doctors should write morning, afternoon, and evening to clarify the timings that each medicine has to be taken by the patients.
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