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Bihar Doctors Face Salary Cuts for HPR Non-Compliance
5 Feb
Summary
- Doctors and nurses registration for digital prescriptions is uneven across Bihar.
- Non-compliant medical staff may face salary stoppage from March.
- Ban on private practice for government doctors is planned for 2025-30.
Bihar is strongly pushing for a paperless healthcare system through the Health Professional Registry (HPR). This initiative aims to streamline consultations and dispensing in government facilities, enabling doctors to issue digital prescriptions.
Compliance with HPR registration is currently uneven. While a majority of government nurses have registered, only about 66% of government doctors have completed the process. The private sector shows significantly lower registration rates, with less than 12% of doctors and 14.5% of nurses enrolled.
To ensure adherence, civil surgeons have been instructed to expedite registration for all public sector medical staff within the next 10 days. Following this, a strict deadline of the end of this month has been set. Non-compliance from March onwards will result in administrative actions, including salary suspension for unregistered doctors and nurses.
This push for universal HPR registration aligns with the state government's broader plan to ban private practice by government doctors as part of the Saat Nischay-3 program for 2025-30. A committee has been formed to consult stakeholders on this proposed ban.
