PATNA, May 19 -- The Bihar health department has asked civil surgeons to ensure by Monday the compilation and uploading of complete data of government doctors posted at district hospitals and health facilities below it on the Bihar Health Application Visionary Yojana for All, referred to as the Bhavya app, said officials on Sunday. The order issued on May 16, and seen by the Hindustan Times, must be complied with in three days, prompting civil surgeons to ask office staff at hospitals, right from district headquarters to the block level, to function in their respective offices on Sunday. "Data of only 6,281 doctors are presently available on the Bhavya app, whereas there are many other doctors posted at different health facilities across the state," said Manoj Kumar Singh, Bihar's health secretary, in his letter to the civil surgeon (CS), district programme manager (DPM) and the district monitoring and evaluation officer (DM&EO) across 38 districts of Bihar. "Among the data on doctors available on the app, it has also been observed that in many cases the educational qualification, field of specialisation and some other fields of information have been left blank on the Bhavya app... It will be the responsibility of the DPMs and the DM&EO to coordinate with the doctors to compile and upload complete information on the Bhavya app in three days. The civil surgeons must ensure compliance of the task," Singh said in his letter. The low number of doctors' registration on the app was because many doctors consciously wanted to keep themselves out of the online system of monitoring. "Once the names of doctors are uploaded on the app, their attendance and quantum of work, in terms of patients examined in the outdoor patient department (OPD) and surgeries performed, can be monitored online in the state health headquarters," said people familiar with the working system of doctors in peripheries. "It will then also be difficult for doctors to leave their place of posting and do private practice in their home districts for major part of the month," the official quoted above said. Bihar has around 8,500 doctors with MBBS or higher degree, working as general duty medical officers and specialist medical officers in the government healthcare system. Of them, however, data of 6,281 doctors, many with incomplete information, were available on the Bhavya app, functional for almost a year-and-a-half after its pilot in four districts, including Nalanda, Muzaffarpur and Purnea. Patna was the last district where the paperless system of OPD consultation in peripheries through the app was introduced. "We have received the health secretary's communication and are working even on Sunday to comply with his order within the stipulated deadline," said Vivek Kumar Singh, district programme manager of Patna. The Bhavya app, which also has a citizen health portal for registration of patients for consultation, is part of the CM's Digital Health Mission aiming to achieve paperless OPD consultation at peripheries, monitoring of attendance and work of doctors, patient investigations and drug dispensation....