Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 7: Being seriously concerned about the difficulties being faced by the intending pilgrims in accessing Government Doctors/ Institutes nominated by the State Governments to issue the mandatory Compulsory Health Certificates (CHCs), the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board, R.K Gupta, has addressed Health Secretaries of all the States and UTs in the country and once again requested them to ensure that the intending Yatris do not face any inconvenience whatsoever in obtaining Compulsory Health Certificates without which they cannot proceed to apply for Yatra Registration.
The CEO has urged the Health Secretaries to consider nominating more Doctors, wherever problems are being faced by pilgrims because the number of doctors who are authorized to issue Compulsory Health Certificates is inadequate or where doctors have been transferred out and no replacements have since been made.
On the directions of the Supreme Court in 2012, the Shrine Board has put in place a mechanism to ensure that every intending Yatri procures a Compulsory Health Certificate, issued by a Doctor/ Medical Institute authorized to do so by the State Government, before he proceeds to obtain a Yatra Permit to undertake the pilgrimage.
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