Dehradun, April 14 -- Why has the government of Uttarakhand taken the unprecedented decision to revoke the licences of around 450 Ayush doctors, the majority of whom hold degrees of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery or else hold Bachelor of Unani and Surgery degrees?
The state is already facing an unprecedented shortage of trained doctors especially in the hill areas where allopathic doctors have refused to set up practice. It was primarily for this reason that, in 2021, the then chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat allowed ayurvedic doctors who were practicing in these regions, to prescribe allopathic medicines.
The wheel seems to have come full circle with a question mark being raised regarding the degrees of these ayurveda doctors, many of w...