Chandigarh, March 31 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Monday directed the health department to maintain real-time digital records of medicines in government hospitals and warned that strict action will be taken against doctors prescribing medicines from outside without recording non-availability.

Chairing a review meeting about the state's healthcare services, the CM said that chief medical officers (CMOs) will be responsible for ensuring compliance of the instructions.

As all government hospitals will have to maintain medicine records on a real-time in a centralised portal, the doctors will be able to check the availability of medicines in their respective hospitals, leaving no scope for prescribing medicines from outside...