Finding a cure for doctors’ illegible handwriting causing problems in apprehending the post-mortem and medico-legal reports, the Punjab Government has implemented Medico-legal Reports software for all the doctors across the State.
In Government or in private hospitals, the State Government has mandated to use the MedlEaPR software to prepare the medico-legal report regarding assault, roadside accidents. Punjab Health and Family Welfare Minister Madan Mohan Mittal said that all the doctors who conduct MlRs would get the password issued for access to the software from the appropriate authority.
Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare Vinni Mahajan said that all private institutions are supposed to share the site. “To implement this software, a State nodal officer Dr Surinder Ghangar and an additional State nodal officer Dr Parminder Singh Bhatti have been appointed. Any doctor facing any difficulty in using this software could contact these nodal officers,” said Mahajan. She added that,“to obtain username and password, the concerned doctor has to fill the complete Biodata on the prescribed proforma and send the same through the Head of the Institute where he is working to the Director Health Services, Punjab, Parivar Kalyan Bhavan, Sector 34-A, Chandigarh (dhspunjab@gmail.com). The doctor can also contact the respective IMA, President of the district,” added Mahajan.