Association seeks additional posts in DMS institutions to complete entries for medico-legal cases
The Service Doctors and Post Graduates Association is requesting additional staff for government hospitals in India to manage the administrative burden of mandatory digital medico-legal reporting. Doctors argue that current workloads make it impossible to meet strict upload deadlines for the MedLEaPR portal while maintaining patient care.
Why it matters
It highlights the friction between digital administrative mandates and the practical realities of understaffed public healthcare systems.
The mandatory same-day uploading of Medico-Legal Cases (MLCs) on the Medico Legal Examination and Post Mortem Reporting (MedLEaPR) portal is difficult for doctors working 24-hour shifts in government hospitals under the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services (DMS) as they already have to manage heavy clinical and emergency workloads, according to the Service Doctors and Post Graduates Association (SDPGA).
The association has sought sanctioning of additional doctor posts in the DMS and creation of posts for physician assistants or data entry operators to help assist doctors complete these medico-legal entries.
The Health department had earlier instructed doctors to prepare and submit medico-legal and postmortem reports through MedLEaPR immediately. If the portal was not functioning, a typed report was to be issued immediately and uploaded as soon as possible, but within 24 hours. Reports were also to be frozen on completion of the postmortem.
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