Case histories of patients, and information related to hospital staff and stocks of medicines, could soon be available online in State-run medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is planning to start an ‘E-hospital’ facility at medical colleges.
The six medical colleges of Kanpur, Jhansi, Agra, Meerut and Gorakhpur, and the Laxmipat Singhania Institute of Cardiology in Kanpur, have been picked for the implementation of the new facility under the first phase.
The government’s decision to digitalise information on stock supply in government hospitals comes a few months after about 30 children died within 48 hours at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur, allegedly due to shortage of oxygen supply.
₹10 crore allocated
“All information regarding medical education as well as patient care will be online,” U.P.’s Medical Education Minister Ashutosh Tandon said here on Monday.
To set up the hospital management system, the government has already allotted a budget of ₹10 crore, he added.
Apart from E-hospitals, the government has also formed a Medical Education Strategy Cell (MESC), the first of its kind in the State, to create a roadmap for phase-wise improvements in the medical education sector.
The government has also initiated the process of upgrading five district hospitals in Basti, Faizabad, Firozabad, Shahjahanpur and Bahraich to the level of medical colleges, with the help of the Centre.