Thanks largely to the efforts of Dr Rumi Beramji, it will soon be permissible for anyone to be healed with needle therapy at the hands of a state-recognized medical practitioner. On December 10, 2015, Maharashtra became the second state after West Bengal to have passed a bill, paving the way for recognition to this ancient therapy (acupuncture), the doctor informs Parsiana in a write-up.
Starting in November 2013, "it took three meetings and a whole load of documents and proof” for Dr Vijaykumar Gavit, the then medical education minister to call "for a meeting of all concerned departments …to find out......