DHARAMSHALA: The Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India sent a letter to the Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Delhi) expressing the decision to approve the registration of Tibetan Nurses under the Indian Nursing Council. This letter was in response to the bureau’s appeal (Ref: BDL/REP/00/2016/(965) dated March 3, 2016 regarding registration problems faced by Tibetan nurses in Uttarakhand state on the grounds of not having birth certificates.

In the letter, Shri C K Mishra, Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, wrote: “I would like to inform you that the Indian Nursing Council deliberated on the issue and approved the registration of Tibetan nurses who have acquired nursing qualification from its recognised institutions.”