Hospitals run by the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) are slated to take the paperless route as the civic body is planning to implement the health card management system soon. A proposal in this regard will be tabled before the standing committee. Once the system is implemented,the records of patients visiting civic hospitals will be digitised and patients will be given a health card. The estimated cost will be around Rs 4.75 crore. At present,the municipal corporation runs the Yeshwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) located at Sant Tukaram Nagar and various others hospitals in many parts of the city,which treat more than 2,000 patients every day. The hospitals makes case papers for each patient who visits them and this includes past medical record. PCMC officials said the current system of writing the case papers takes up a lot of time of the hospital staff and the doctors,and storing the case papers also poses a problem. If the case paper is lost,then the hospital staff cannot find out what treatment the patient has been undergoing. Sometimes,because of case papers being lost,patients have to undergo some tests again,which results in unnecessary expenditure. The health card would contain all information about the diseases that the patient is suffering,the treatment given. The company setting up the system will also be responsible for its maintenance,for a period of five years.
