A hospitalisation in a civic facility is no less than an ordeal. Running around to collect test reports, chasing on-duty doctors and queuing up to collect hospital records can wear out even the best of us. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has struck upon one solution for all of these: barcoded wrist bands.

The civic body will begin digitisation of all records through such tags on patients with a pilot project at Sion Hospital by the end of this year. The project will be later replicated at Nair Hospital and KEM Hospital. Once the project takes off, even patients can log onto the system to access their records.