The police department of West Kazakhstan region has obtained a court ruling prohibiting a local resident from driving a car. The basis was a medical certificate. It turned out that the man is registered with epilepsy. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
According to the court, the Kazakh citizen received a category "B" license back in August 2017. However, as it turned out during the court proceedings, the person is under dispensary observation with a diagnosis of G40.8 – "Other specified forms of epilepsy". It is not reported when this diagnosis was made.
"In accordance with the legislation, deterioration of the driver's health, which prevents safe driving and is confirmed by a medical certificate, is grounds for termination of the right to drive vehicles," the statement says.
As a result, the regional court ruled that epilepsy is an absolute contraindication to driving a car. In this regard, the driver's license of the resident of West Kazakhstan was terminated. Now the citizen is obliged to surrender his driver's license to the regional police department.
Earlier it became known that a joint inspection by the Ministry of Health and the police showed that many Kazakhs drive cars despite having serious medical contraindications. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has already sent 13 thousand lawsuits to courts to annul driver's licenses. Of these, more than 7.4 thousand driver's licenses have already ceased to be valid.
Earlier, a woman from Almaty spoke on social media about her personal experience of undergoing a mandatory medical examination for drivers over 65 years old. According to her, doctors practically did not conduct an examination.
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