Satna (MP): A government doctor in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district has taken Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's recent suggestion about writing prescriptions in Hindi with 'Shri Hari' on top seriously.
At the recent release of textbooks in Hindi for first-year MBBS students, Chouhan commented that doctors could perhaps start writing prescriptions in Hindi with 'Shri Hari' on top. Dr Sarvesh Singh of Satna district put it into practice the same day.
A prescription written in Hindi by Dr Singh, a medical officer of a primary health centre (PHC) at Kotar village, surfaced on social media on Sunday. It was the same day when Union Home Minister Amit Shah released textbooks in Hindi for first-year MBBS students in Bhopal.
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In his speech at the event, Chouhan had remarked in a lighter vein that doctors may write 'Shri Hari' on top of prescription slips in place of Rx and then write the list of medicines etc in Hindi. The "R" in "Rx" stands for the Latin word recipe, meaning "take.
Dr Sarvesh Singh, who completed MBBS in 2017, said he was watching the programme of the textbook release live. "The first patient who visited the PHC on Sunday complained of a stomach ache. I started writing the prescription with 'Shri Hari' in place of Rx and then listed the names of medicines in Hindi," Dr Singh said.
Singh also wrote the case history in Hindi. His prescription was later shared widely on Twitter. The doctor wrote in the prescription 'Pain In Lower Abdomen', 'Motion Not Passing Since Three Days' and other symptoms of the disease in the Hindi language.
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After going through the prescription, the patient said, "I was able to understand fully what doctor sahab has mentioned in the prescription. When to take and how to take medicines. Besides, the prescription helps to understand the generic names of the drugs."
On the other hand, Dr Singh said, "I have mentioned the symptoms in Hindi language while keeping its English language essence intact. But from now onwards I will write Pain in Stomach in Hindi as pait mein dard, bukhar instead of writing fever, so it will be more clear to a patient."
