LUCKNOW, Sept. 26 -- Doctors across Uttar Pradesh may soon need to brush up on their Hindi vocabulary as UP deputy chief minister and health minister Brajesh Pathak has urged them to write all prescriptions, medicine names and diagnostic tests in Hindi using the Devanagari script, saying this could make healthcare information easier for patients to understand. "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 stated in an open letter to doctors on Friday, urging them to make Hindi and Indian languages a more regular part of medical communication. He added that he would personally give preference to medicines, names of which are written in Hindi. The deputy CM's appeal comes as medical communication continues to rely on technical terminology and commonly used English terms. Pathak pointed out that September 25 marks the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, nationalist thinker and proponent of integral humanism. The occasion, he suggested, could also be marked by taking a pledge to promote Hindi. "The Prime Minister communicates in Hindi during his visits abroad and we should also promote Indian languages. Doctors prescribing in Hindi will be felicitated," he said. Doctors, while welcoming efforts to promote the use of Hindi, said implementing this would bring practical difficulties. Pathak appealed to promote the use of Hindi and Indian languages in the medical sector to make the healthcare system more accessible and understandable for patients....