Soon e-registration facility at SMS hospital

Jaipur: On the lines of e-registration for appointment with doctors at AIIMS, Delhi, the Sawai Man Singh (SMS) hospital will soon introduce a similar facility for patients.
The facility will allow a patient to fix appointment with his doctor online. The health department is planning to introduce the system in a phase-wise manner. Initially, the facility will start in medicine department and skin department of the hospital.For the purpose, fast track counters will be opened at the hospital to facilitate patients who have done online registration.
Recently, a seven-member team from the health department had visited AIIMS to study the functioning of e-registration of OPD patients. The team examined how the system is operated smoothly.
Principal secretary health and medical education Mukesh Sharma, while taking part in sub-group (health) meeting of chief minister advisory committee on Wednesday, said that attendants of patient or patient himself can get registration through internet. The hospital will inform the patient about the timing of appointment with the doctor via internet. He also expressed the need to introduce a number system with indicator for the benefit of the patients.
Serpentine queues at SMS hospital are a common sight, especially in the medicine department. Patients have to wait for a long time outside the chambers of doctors.
Now, as the health department is planning to introduce e-registration, it will certainly help save patients' time. The facility is aimed at transforming the facilities in OPD. An SMS hospital official said that daily 8,000 to 10,000 patients come to hospital's OPD for treatment. Normally, a patient can get registration card from registration counters at Dhanwatri building, where the OPD is situated.
There is a need for e-registration facility for appointment with doctors in government hospitals in state.
According to health department figures, more than 32,000 patients come to OPDs in hospitals attached to medical colleges daily. In other government hospitals, 2.54 lakh patients come for treatment in the OPD daily. E-registration facility will ease congestion in these hospitals as patients will arrive at the time of their appointment only, thus saving a lot of time.