India, May 22 -- The district health department is planning to introduce a centralised token system at the Civil Hospital in Sector 10A to curb queues at the out-patient departments (OPDs) and reduce waiting times for patients, officials aware of the matter said on Thursday.

A tender was floated in this regard to install 26 LED-touch display panels for token information and announcements, along with incorporating the token system, officials said.

"The existing token system in the hospital will be upgraded through comparatively large touch panels with offline/reporting history of patients to be recorded for interactive patient navigation and reduce waiting time outside the OPDs," a senior Public Works Department (PWD) official said, requ...