رهبر امارت اسلامی افغانستان دستور نوشتن نسخه‌های کمپیوتری را صادر کرد

The Ministry of Public Health stated that a directive has been issued by the leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to implement computerized prescriptions.

The ministry’s spokesperson says efforts are underway to enforce the use of computerized prescriptions across the country.

Sharafat Zaman Amarakhail, spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Health, told TOLOnews:
“We are working on how to gradually implement computerized prescriptions in both public and private hospitals. We hope that in the future, all hospitals across the country will use computerized prescriptions.”

Nisar Ahmad, who has been selling medicine in Kabul for the past fifteen years, says handwritten and coded prescriptions are a major problem.

He told TOLOnews: “A doctor wrote a prescription, but the pharmacist gave the wrong medicine because the prescription was written in code and was unreadable. If it’s from a hospital, only that hospital’s pharmacy can read it. If it’s from a clinic, then only that specific pharmacy understands it.”

Patients and their relatives visiting pharmacies welcome the leader’s directive.

Mohammad Nasir, a medicine buyer, said: “I was given a prescription. I searched the entire city but couldn’t find the medicine. I had to return and buy it from that specific pharmacy at a higher price. If prescriptions become computerized, it will be better, we’ll be able to find medicine anywhere.”

Zaheer Ahmad, another buyer, said: “When prescriptions are written in code and we bring them to the pharmacist, most of them don’t understand which medicine is prescribed. If prescriptions become computerized, it will be much easier for all of us.”

This comes as many people across the country have long faced issues with handwritten, especially coded, prescriptions.