Doctors to Write Prescription in Capital Letters – Union Health Ministry

New Delhi, June 12: The Union health ministry is asking doctors to write prescription in capital letters and asking to indicate generic name of drugs to avoid errors.

From now onwards there will be no more jokes on unreadable handwriting of doctors. The Union Health ministry will soon announce a notification to asking doctors to write a medical prescription in a capital letters and this rule will be applicable to all doctors across the country. The Health ministry is also asking to mention the generic names of drugs in prescription which helps the patients to buy them cheap.

As per news the notification is expecting to announce by the health ministry within a week’s time and the official said that there would be no penalties or punishments for the doctors who are not following the notification. “Like all other MCI regulations, this too will govern the doctors”.

The scrawled prescription may have serious implications for patients and in some cases it cloud lead to death also. Health Minister J P Nadda said that “The Central government has approved to modify Indian Medical Council Regulations 2002, providing that every doctor should mention the generic name of drug, should write prescription legible format and ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs”.

K K Aggarwal of Indian Medical Association (IMA) said that “writing prescription in capital letter will decreases the errors and it will become uniform. One drug has minimum 10 brands, with help of legible prescription patients can able to know about the drug either it is generic or not.”