Soon the gas tragedy victims would have the facility to visit any of the six hospitals affiliated with the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC). The BMHRC administration is working on developing centralized bio-metric database of the patients that would give freedom to them visiting any hospital without carrying any documents.
Hassle-free access to the patients would be a great help to lakhs of patients who are at present forced to carry papers of consultation and treatment. This would also help the patients in access of patients at any of the facility of choice.
Director of Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre (BMHRC), Bhopal Dr Manoj Pandey said that the details of the database of 5.76 lakh gas victims is with the Rehabilitation Commissioner and once the system is implemented the patients visiting the hospitals will be enrolled with the bio-metric impression system and all the details of previous visits and treatments would be coupled and next time the details will be extracted using the bio metric details of the patients.
At present BMHRC with 8 health centers and six Gas relief hospitals in the city.
All the details will be maintained online. Once the collection of bio metric process is completed the patient could visit hospital which provides service to the gas victims. The database would provide the medical history, he added.
Dr Pandey said that the process would be completed with the help of consultant hired by Government of India. The work would be done by state government and Government of India. At present the data is of 5.76 lakh patients.