Preserve medical records, don’t ask for copies: Hospital to cops

  • | Thursday | 4th October, 2018

However, we have been regularly getting requests for the original copies of the medical report from the police stations. The hospital keeps only the carbon copy. Noida: Local police stations often fail to keep their records safe and instead request the district hospital to send them a copy of medical reports whenever they find it difficult to trace them in the stations. Fed up with such requests, the district hospital has now written to the senior superintendent of police that it is no longer possible for them to abide by such requests.“We hand over the original medical report to the police in every case. We discourage this practice as original copies cannot be produced from carbon copies and any such copy will not considered authentic,” said chief medical superintendent of the district hospital, Dr Ajai Agrawal.He told TOI that as many as two-three requests come from various police stations on an average in a day.On Wednesday morning too, a request had come from a police station.He said that the police stations have been citing “lack of maintenance of records” at the stations for the requests.The CMS on Wednesday wrote to the SSP Ajay Pal Sharma stating that the local police stations should keep the medical reports safe and be discouraged from seeking the carbon copies of the same.The SSP, however, told TOI that he is yet to receive any such letter.“I am yet to receive any such complaint from the hospital,” he said.

Noida: Local police stations often fail to keep their records safe and instead request the district hospital to send them a copy of medical reports whenever they find it difficult to trace them in the stations. Fed up with such requests, the district hospital has now written to the senior superintendent of police that it is no longer possible for them to abide by such requests.“We hand over the original medical report to the police in every case. The hospital keeps only the carbon copy. However, we have been regularly getting requests for the original copies of the medical report from the police stations. We discourage this practice as original copies cannot be produced from carbon copies and any such copy will not considered authentic,” said chief medical superintendent of the district hospital, Dr Ajai Agrawal.He told TOI that as many as two-three requests come from various police stations on an average in a day.On Wednesday morning too, a request had come from a police station.He said that the police stations have been citing “lack of maintenance of records” at the stations for the requests.The CMS on Wednesday wrote to the SSP Ajay Pal Sharma stating that the local police stations should keep the medical reports safe and be discouraged from seeking the carbon copies of the same.The SSP, however, told TOI that he is yet to receive any such letter.“I am yet to receive any such complaint from the hospital,” he said.

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