Paschim Banga Khet Mazdoorsamity ... vs State Of West Bengal & Anr on 6 May, 1996 (3) Superintendents of hospitals will issue regulatory guidelines for admitting such patients on internal adjustments amongst various wards and different kinds of beds including cold beds and Will hold regular weekly meetings for monitoring and reviewing the situation. A model of such guidelines is enclosed with this memorandum which may be suitably amended before issue according to local arrangements prevailing in various establishments. (4) If feasible, such patients should be accommodated in trolley- beds and, even, on the floor when it is absolutely necessary during the exercise towards internal adjustments as referred to at (3) above. Having regard to the drawbacks in the system of maintenance of admission registers of patients in the hospitals it has been directed that the Superintendents and Medical Officers of the hospitals should take the following actions to regularize the system with a view to avoiding confusion in respect of Admission/Emergency Attendance Registers : " (a) Clear recording of the name, age, sex, address, disease of the patient by the attending medical officers; b) Clear recording of date and time of attendance/examination/admission of the patient; (c) Clear indication whether and where the patient has been admitted, transferred, referred: (d) Safe custody of the Registers; (e) Periodical inspection of the arrangement by the Superintendent; (f) Fixing of responsibility of maintenance and safe custody of the Registers." With regard to identifying the individual medical officers attending to the individual patient approaching Out Patients' Department/Emergency Department of a hospital on the basis of consulting the hospital records, it has been directed that the following procedure should be followed in future : "A. A copy of the Duty Roaster of Medical Officers should be preserved in the office of the Superintendent incorporating the modifications done for unavoidable circumstances; B. Each Department shall maintain a register for recording the signature of attending medical officers denoting their arrival and departure time; Indian Kanoon - http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1743022/ 7