Troops preparing to deploy overseas are being wrongly prescribed damaging anti-malarial drugs due to failures in the Ministry of Defence’s medical IT system, senior army doctors have warned. Medics are frequently unable to access soldiers’ patient histories and end up handing out inappropriate drugs such as lariam, or prescribing medicines meant for other patients, according to the former head of Britain’s main military hospital in Afghanistan. Colonel Glynn Evans said yesterday the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) made it impossible to provide safe and timely treatment to armed forces members and their families. He warned the slow pace of the software means military doctors are unable to follow the strict criteria for choosing certain drugs in the rushed hours before…