Doctors must write prescriptions in capital letters, squiggles will not do

Till now, doctors in India had got away with writing prescriptions in squiggles that only he could interpret and it led to misinterpretation by the shops and the dispensaries. That would soon be a thing of the past because doctors would now have write prescription in capital letters and also put down the generic names of the drugs prescribed.
This has been reported in thehindu.com dated 11 June 2015.

Chemists and patients alike can now bid adieu to the illegible handwriting and the hazard of misinterpretation. The Union Health Ministry plans to introduce a gazette notification to the effect soon after which the rule will be applicable across the country. This has been revealed by a rep of the Indian Medical Association.
Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda had noted with concern in the Lok Sabha about the observations of some parliamentarians that illegible prescription by doctors could give rise to serious implications and even death of the patients. The minister had informed the House that his ministry had approved the amendment to the Indian Medical Council Regulations, 2002. Through this amendment, every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names in legible and capital letters.
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