<p>Cuttack (Odisha): The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to issue a circular asking doctors to write all prescriptions and medico-legal reports in legible handwriting, if possible, in capital letters or in a typed form.</p>.<p>This will ensure that the judicial system does not suffer from “unnecessary fatigue” in reading those documents, the order said.</p>.<p>This direction came from the High Court last week when Justice S K Panigrahi found it difficult to decide a case, as the post-mortem examination report annexed in the petition was not legible and could not be comprehended.</p>.Identity confusion triggers tragic chain of events in Odisha - man declared dead, then alive, dies .<p>A petitioner had approached the court seeking a direction to the government to consider his representation for ex-gratia assistance as his elder son had died due to snakebite.</p>.<p>In compliance with an earlier order, the doctor who had written the post-mortem examination report appeared before the court through virtual mode, read out the incomprehensible document and rendered his opinion. Following this, the court was able to realise that it was a snakebite case and adjudicated over it.</p>.<p>"In many cases, the casual approach of most of the doctors while writing the post-mortem reports, is affecting comprehension of medico-legal cases very badly, and the judicial system finds it very difficult to read those (reports) to come to a definite conclusion," Justice Panigrahi observed in his order.</p>.<p>He said that the tendency of writing such 'zigzag handwriting', which cannot be read by a common man or judicial officers, has become a fashion among the doctors of the state.</p>.<p>"Hence, this court directs the Chief Secretary, State of Odisha, to issue directions to all doctors of the state to write post-mortem reports and prescriptions in capital letters or in legible handwriting," the high court said in the order passed on January 4.</p>
<p>Cuttack (Odisha): The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to issue a circular asking doctors to write all prescriptions and medico-legal reports in legible handwriting, if possible, in capital letters or in a typed form.</p>.<p>This will ensure that the judicial system does not suffer from “unnecessary fatigue” in reading those documents, the order said.</p>.<p>This direction came from the High Court last week when Justice S K Panigrahi found it difficult to decide a case, as the post-mortem examination report annexed in the petition was not legible and could not be comprehended.</p>.Identity confusion triggers tragic chain of events in Odisha - man declared dead, then alive, dies .<p>A petitioner had approached the court seeking a direction to the government to consider his representation for ex-gratia assistance as his elder son had died due to snakebite.</p>.<p>In compliance with an earlier order, the doctor who had written the post-mortem examination report appeared before the court through virtual mode, read out the incomprehensible document and rendered his opinion. Following this, the court was able to realise that it was a snakebite case and adjudicated over it.</p>.<p>"In many cases, the casual approach of most of the doctors while writing the post-mortem reports, is affecting comprehension of medico-legal cases very badly, and the judicial system finds it very difficult to read those (reports) to come to a definite conclusion," Justice Panigrahi observed in his order.</p>.<p>He said that the tendency of writing such 'zigzag handwriting', which cannot be read by a common man or judicial officers, has become a fashion among the doctors of the state.</p>.<p>"Hence, this court directs the Chief Secretary, State of Odisha, to issue directions to all doctors of the state to write post-mortem reports and prescriptions in capital letters or in legible handwriting," the high court said in the order passed on January 4.</p>