Q: Is there any data on how many deaths or serious health problem occurs in India every year due to errors in reading hand-written prescriptions?

A:There was very little information retrieved from the Net. Here are some links which can be looked up: http://medind.nic.in/maa/t04/i2/maat04i2p172.pdf (this is from our database, medIND..a full-text database of peer reviewed Indian biomedical journals). http://members.rediff.com/drkhosla/News/news31.html http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/20040915/management01.shtml