The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna (AIIMS-P), on Monday instructed its doctors to write prescriptions of patients in capital letters, as mandated under Central government rules. The inter-office-memo comes a month after a patient suffered a paralytic attack on being supplied wrong drugs by a chemist, ostensibly as he could not decipher the doctor’s writing on the prescription. The Hindustan Times had reported about it on August 4, prompting the AIIMS administration to take suitable action. In her complaint, Rani said she subsequently suffered a paralytic attack, and had to be admitted to a private hospital. Incidentally, the mix-up was pointed out by a consultant at AIIMS when Rani returned to the institute’s medicine department for a follow-up.

Source: Hindustan Times August 07, 2017 07:41 UTC