Computerized Medicine Records in all Government Hospitals soon

Bihar Health Department will computerise the record of medicines for distribution among patients turning up at the state-run hospitals, department’s Principal Secretary Amarjit Sinha said. Talking to reporters here, Sinha expressed concern over the reports of medicines getting expired and dumped into fields in Araria, Samastipur and Begusarai districts. “Now we have decided to computerise the records and stocks of medicines from April 2012,” he said. Sinha said Bihar Medical Services and Infrastructure Corportation Limited has been set up and the inventory of the medicines and records would now be computerised from April, 2012. “We have come across reports from several districts about the medicines being thrown into drains or being kept in open on the rooftop,” he said adding it was wrong and we should be proactive to avoid waste. “We have set a procedure for disposal of the expired medicines available at government hospitals,” Sinha said. He said altogether six medical colleges and hospitals are functional in the state and there has been significant increase in turnouts of patients because of setting right the OPDs there. The department had so far issued health cards to more than 1.4 crore school children between the age group of six to 14 years under the new generation health guarantee programme, Sinha informed.