UP deputy CM urges prescriptions in Hindi, doctors call it challenging
LUCKNOW, Sept. 26 -- Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister and health minister Brajesh Pathak has urged doctors in the state to write prescriptions in Hindi, saying this could make healthcare information easier for patients to understand. The doctors have welcomed the suggestion but pointed out several practical issues in implementing it.
In an open letter to the doctors on Friday, Pathak said he was making the request not only as the deputy chief minister and health minister but also as a Hindi-loving Indian.
"As the state's medical and medical education minister, I would also appeal, as a nationalist Indian, to doctors to write the names of medicines and tests in Hindi on prescriptions for the ease of patients," he said.
Doctors, however, s...
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