Hyderabad: SCR rolls out new app for medical services to staff

Secunderabad: Indian Railways has launched a mobile application for downloading Unique Medical Identity Card (UMID) on the Monday.

"A mobile application has been launched for downloading UMID card through mobile phone for enhancing the integration of UMID with HMIS and also to facilitate the railway employees for conveniently using UMID card while accessing their health care services. Apart from Railway employees, now their dependants would also be able to download UMID cards through this application," said a senior officer, SCR.

Around 1,000 patients were effectively handled by using the recently launched 3 modules in the trial project of HMIS at Central Hospital, Lallaguda. With its success, now Indian Railways is adding one more module that is Laboratory module in addition to the existing three.