Attention: Apollo Hospital
In the past, following consultation, a patient used to get the prescription directly from the doctor at the Apollo Hospital. Patient had the choice either to purchase the medicine from Apollo's Pharmacy or to buy outside. But now Apollo doctors send all prescriptions through their Local Area Network to their Pharmacy Billing.
There are only two counters at the Pharmacy Billing with computers working at a snail's pace for the thousands of patients visiting Apollo every day. As a result, while my wife spent hardly ten minutes with the Consultant reviewing the test reports, I had to stand in the queue one and a quarter hour to get a printout of the prescription (for purchase outside). Apollo could at least set up a separate counter to provide prescription printouts for those patients who want to buy medicines outside.
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