Now Ayurvedic practitioners can issue medical certificate for driving license
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Thiruvananthapuram: With the director of Indian System of Medicine making a rectification stating that BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine, and Surgery) doctors are equally qualified like MBBS doctors to grant medical certificates, Ayurvedic practitioners will now have the authority to issue medical fitness certificates for driving license related process.
Confirmation to this effect was given by Kerala transport minister Antony Raju who stated that registered doctors graduated in Ayurvedic medicine has been given the right to issue medical fitness certificate for obtaining the driving license.
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