Nalgonda-based pharmacist Chilkuri Paramathma's lone battle against prescription errors, which began in 2012, finally came to fruition with the Union ministry of health and family welfare issuing a public notice asking citizens to send their feedback on the proposed rule about writing drug names in capital letters. The deadline for writing to the ministry's joint secretary (medical education) Ali R Rizvi is August 17. According to experts, the Centre is expected to issue a gazette notification formally incorporating the new rule in the Indian Medical Council (professional conduct, etiquette and ethics) Regulation, 2002, shortly after this process.
"The rule, compelling doctors to write the generic names of drugs legibly and in capital letters, has been pending for a long time. Now that the public notice has been issued by the Union ministry, it is only a matter of days before the new…
