Chandigarh, March 30 -- Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Nayab Singh Saini has directed that all government hospitals must maintain medicine records on a real-time centralised portal. Doctors will be able to check the availability of medicines in their respective hospitals, leaving no scope for prescribing medicines from outside. He made it clear that if any doctor still prescribes outside medicines, they must explicitly state on the OPD slip that the medicine is unavailable in the hospital. Responsibility for ensuring compliance will lie with the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs).
The Chief Minister gave these directions while chairing a high-level review meeting on the state's healthcare services at the Secretariat on Monday. Additional Chief Sec...