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Telangana HC notice to govts over doctors' handwriting

Hyderabad: The Telangana high court on Thursday issued notices to the state, Centre and Medical Council of India asking them to file their counters explaining their steps to make the doctors use legible hand writing and preferably capital letters while writing prescriptions.

The bench of chief justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy was hearing a petition filed by Paduru Ramana Reddy of Miryalaguda in Nalgonda district who wanted the court to direct the authorities to ensure that doctors write legible prescriptions and write only generic names of the medicines.



The bench directed the petitioner to implead Indian medical association (IMA) to the plea. “That is a doctors’ association and they should know about the case,” the bench said.

The petitioner’s counsel told the court that MCI regulations have already made it mandatory for the doctors to follow legible and generic route, but these norms are not being followed.

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