Srinagar, Jul 01 (KNS): Directorate of Health Services, Kashmir (DHSK) today launched stamped prescription writing in its department from District Hospital Pulwama. This initiative will go a long way towards greater transparency & accountability. It will simultaneously help to promote ethical practice to an enormous extent and will thus discourage malpractice. Moreover it will increase dispensing of hospital medicine.
As the patient has every right to know the prescribing doctor, he/she shall be having the information about the same always wherein every prescription written in the hospital will have a marked official stamp, indicating the name and designation of the prescribing doctor.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
District Hospital Pulwama became the first hospital in Jammu & Kashmir to implement the Directorate of Health Services Kashmir’s order no: 1414-1514 dated: 27-05-2017 wherein it was impressed upon all the hospital administrators to start the practice of stamped prescription writing.
Director Health Services, Kashmir Dr Saleem-ur-Rehman said that stamped prescription writing will be of utmost significance in providing quality health care and deliver better transparency in the system. (KNS)