Assam- Hospitals

Disclose psychiatric info under RTI Yes says CIC No says HC

Do psychiatry patients have the right to access records of their treatment While the Central Information Commission CIC directed a mental health hospital to provide this information to a patient the hospital has moved court citing confidentiality The Delhi High Court has given the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences IHBAS a stay ord... Read More

Write all prescriptions in capital letters Mumbai citizens tell doctors

MUMBAI It turns out that all those jokes about doctors scrawl are not funny at all Doctors illegible handwriting causes 7000 deaths in the US every year and another 15 million Americans report minor adverse reactionsbe it diarrhoea or rashesor even death Now a movement has begun in Mumbai asking the medical fraternity to write prescriptions i... Read More