Karnataka Health Minister urged to mandate writing doctors prescriptions in Kannada

Bengaluru: The Kannada Development Authority recently urged Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao to issue an order making it mandatory for doctors working in all government health centres and hospitals to write prescriptions in the state's official language.

Apart from this, the KDA Chairperson Purushotham Bilimale also suggested felicitating doctors every year on Doctors' Day at taluk, district, and state-level in recognition of their love for Kannda and "their activities in favour of the language".

Writing to Rao, Bilimale asked the minister to create an atmosphere where Kannada-loving doctors working in private hospitals and their heads too are encouraged to use the language, PTI has reported.

"This will be of great help in the progress of Kannada language, and I hereby request you to pay attention in this regard," he further mentioned in the letter.

Noting that recently during an official visit to Raichur he had motivated government doctors to write prescriptions in Kannada, and had directed the Deputy Commissioner there to issue necessary instructions in this regard, the KDA chief said, "After reading about it in the media, hundreds of doctors voluntarily have expressed to me that they will start writing prescriptions in Kannada to save the language."