MP doctor writes prescription in Hindi with 'Shri Hari', tweet goes viral

At the recent release of textbooks in Hindi for first-year MBBS students, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan commented that doctors could perhaps start writing prescriptions in Hindi with 'Shri Hari' on top.

A government doctor in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district put it into practice the same day.

A prescription written in Hindi by Dr Sarvesh Singh, a medical officer of a primary health centre (PHC) at Kotar village, surfaced on social media on Sunday, PTI reported.


It was same day when Union Home Minister Amit Shah released textbooks in Hindi for first-year MBBS students in Bhopal. In his speech at the event, Chouhan had remarked in a lighter vein that doctors may write 'Shri Hari' on top of prescription slips in place of Rx and then write the list of medicines etc in Hindi.

The "R" in "Rx" stands for the Latin word recipe, meaning "take, used first in 13th century as a verb and then from the 20th century as a noun.

Dr Sarvesh Singh, who completed MBBS in 2017, said he was watching the programme of the textbook release live. "Rashmi Singh was the first patient who visited the PHC on Sunday complaining of a stomach ache. I started writing the prescription with 'Shri Hari' in place of Rx and then listed the names of medicines in Hindi," Dr Singh said.

Singh also wrote the case history in Hindi. His prescription was later shared widely on Twitter.