"Use Ayurveda Medicines In Govt. & Pvt. Hospitals To Treat COVID Patients": IA Filed In Suo Moto COVID Matter Before Gujarat High Court
3 years, 7 months ago

"Use Ayurveda Medicines In Govt. & Pvt. Hospitals To Treat COVID Patients": IA Filed In Suo Moto COVID Matter Before Gujarat High Court

Live Law  

An Intervention Application has been moved before Gujarat High Court in the suo motu proceedings initiated by it to take stock of the surge in COVID-19 cases in the state of Gujarat. The Intervention Application has been moved by Petitioner in person, Advocate Nimish Mahendra Kapadia submitting that Ayurvedic Medicines are helpful in preventing the infection and also in curing the patients from COVID-19 infection. Further, stressing that such medicines also reduce the financial burden of the State Authorities as well as of the citizens, the IA states "It is noticed that a very less thrust is given to the distribution and use of Ayurvedic Medicines. The role of private hospitals in misusing and selling Remdesivir injections or drugs in the black market may also be directed to be investigated by specialized government agencies.

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‘Ayush to be added to treatment protocol’
1 year ago

‘Ayush to be added to treatment protocol’

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government proposes to carry forward the joint treatment module followed during the covid pandemic to integrate modern medicine treatment with traditional Indian systems. The ministries of health and Ayush are in talks to develop protocols where the two systems could be combined to offer treatment for certain diseases at both government and private health centres and hospitals. …

HC questions Kerala govt logic behind fixing post COVID complications treatment rates
3 years, 3 months ago

HC questions Kerala govt logic behind fixing post COVID complications treatment rates

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: When deaths even after 30 days of a person turning negative for coronavirus is treated as a COVID death, then by the same rationale treatment for post-COVID complications should also be reckoned as part of corona care was the prima facie view expressed by the Kerala High Court on Wednesday. "On a parallel reasoning, treatment which goes on after …

'Efforts Of State Govt Will Fruit Only When Public Cooperates': Allahabad High Court On Violation Of Covid-19 Protocol
3 years, 5 months ago

'Efforts Of State Govt Will Fruit Only When Public Cooperates': Allahabad High Court On Violation Of Covid-19 Protocol

Live Law  

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday observed that even though the Uttar Pradesh Government has taken satisfactory steps to enhance medical infrastructure in the state and subdue the pandemic, its efforts will not show result unless the public adheres to the Covid-19 protocol. "Efforts of State Govt will fruit only when public cooperates and abides by Covid-19 protocol," a Bench …

Qualified Homeopathic Doctors Can Prescribe Preventive And Add On Medicines To Covid 19 Patients: Kerala High Court
3 years, 6 months ago

Qualified Homeopathic Doctors Can Prescribe Preventive And Add On Medicines To Covid 19 Patients: Kerala High Court

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court recently held that qualified homeopathic doctors can dispense prescribed adjuvant medicines for Covid-19 patients apart from the preventive medicines, citing that there is no prohibition imposed by the Government of India on Homoeopathy for treatment of patients in its AYUSH recommendations. The petition contends that there was nothing prohibiting qualified medical AYUSH practitioners to prescribe immunity …

Anandaiah Covid mix to be given in Sarvepalli from today
3 years, 6 months ago

Anandaiah Covid mix to be given in Sarvepalli from today

Deccan Chronicle  

NELLORE: Self-proclaimed Ayurveda doctor Bonigi Anandaiah and his team are gearing up to distribute their herbal medicine in Sarvepalli assembly constituency from Monday. As the government is against any violation of protocol during distribution of this mix that some believe cures Coronavirus, Anandaiah is taking the help of village volunteers for door delivery of the concoction to needy people in …

Doctors question plan to hand out Patanjali’s Coronil to Covid-19 patients
3 years, 6 months ago

Doctors question plan to hand out Patanjali’s Coronil to Covid-19 patients

Live Mint  

Mumbai: Indian doctors on Wednesday decried the free distribution of an unproven remedy to COVID-19 patients by the state of Haryana as the maker of the herbal medicine faced a backlash over comments in which he said modern medicine had caused deaths. The northern state, which is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janta Party, said this week it …

Specify Steps To Be Taken To Combat COVID Surge In Case It Affects Kids: Jharkhand High Court To Govt
3 years, 7 months ago

Specify Steps To Be Taken To Combat COVID Surge In Case It Affects Kids: Jharkhand High Court To Govt

Live Law  

Noting that there is no facility to provide treatment to the Kids, the Jharkhand High Court last week directed the State to apprise the Court as to what is the strategy to deal with such situation, in case kids would suffer from Covid-19. The Bench also directed the State Government is directed to: "Apprise the Court as to what arrangement …

Distribution of Ayurvedic Medicine Touted as Miracle Cure for Covid-19 Indefinitely Suspended
3 years, 7 months ago

Distribution of Ayurvedic Medicine Touted as Miracle Cure for Covid-19 Indefinitely Suspended

News 18  

Distribution of the Ayurvedic preparation, that came to be known as 'Krishnapatnam Medicine', touted to be a miracle cure for Covid-19, drawing thousands of people to the village, has been indefinitely suspended till its efficacy is scientifically established. SPS Nellore district Joint Collector M N Harendhira Prasad said distribution of the medicine would commence only after the government clears it. …

Andhra Man’s Herbal Covid-19 Treatment Draws Crowds, Row; ICMR to Test Samples
3 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Man’s Herbal Covid-19 Treatment Draws Crowds, Row; ICMR to Test Samples

News 18  

For about a month, thousands of people, several of them Covid-19 patients, had been thronging Krishnapatnam town in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district for free “herbal medicines” against Covid-19, triggering concerns over the spread of the deadly infection. While a section of district officials said his “medicines” promised to boost immunity against the coronavirus, there were others who claimed the treatment …

Covid centre inside 'gaushala' in Gujarat treats patients with drugs from cow milk, urine
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid centre inside 'gaushala' in Gujarat treats patients with drugs from cow milk, urine

India Today  

Amid a surge in novel coronavirus cases, a Covid-19 care centre has been set up inside a ‘gaushala’ in Tetoda village in Banaskantha district of Gujarat. Covid-19 patients are given treatment free of cost at the facility, named Vedalakshana Panchgavya Ayurved Covid isolation centre. The centre believes that combining ayurvedic treatment with allopathy, along with consumption of organic foods like …

COVID-19 positive report not required for hospitalisation in Gujarat
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19 positive report not required for hospitalisation in Gujarat

India TV News  

In a relief to people, the Gujarat government on Friday announced that carrying a COVID- 19 positive report will not be necessary for admission of patients to hospitals in the state. The state Health and Family Welfare Department issued a circular, in which it asked all the hospitals to "entertain and give treatment" to all those "suspected patients having symptoms" …

"Provide Medical Facility To All Persons Suffering From Covid 19 In Delhi": Delhi High Court Directs Govt.
3 years, 7 months ago

"Provide Medical Facility To All Persons Suffering From Covid 19 In Delhi": Delhi High Court Directs Govt.

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Delhi Government to provide medical facilities to all the persons suffering from covid 19 in the national capital. The Court also stated that patients requiring facilities with regards to hospitalization, medication or ICU with or without ventilator must be provided with the same.A division bench comprising of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice. …

COVID19-Inform About Steps Taken, Testing Facilities, Availability Of Oxygen Cylinders, Remdesivir Injection Etc: AP High Court To State
3 years, 8 months ago

COVID19-Inform About Steps Taken, Testing Facilities, Availability Of Oxygen Cylinders, Remdesivir Injection Etc: AP High Court To State

Live Law  

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday asked the State Government to file a comprehensive affidavit with regard to the steps taken by the State to deal with the present COVID-19 pandemic. The Bench of Chief Justice Arup Kumar Goswami and Justice C. Praveen Kumar has also directed that the affidavit should include various facets such as:- Testing facilities, Time …

Reasonable Remdesivir Distribution Policy Needed, Sensitize & Educate Public To Break COVID Chain: Gujarat High Court To State Govt
3 years, 8 months ago

Reasonable Remdesivir Distribution Policy Needed, Sensitize & Educate Public To Break COVID Chain: Gujarat High Court To State Govt

Live Law  

Hearing the suo motu proceedings initiated by it to take stock of the surge in COVID-19 cases in the state of Gujarat, the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday asked the state Government to come up with Reasonable Remdesivir Distribution Policy. The state further submitted that the available Remdesivir injection with the State was first administered to: - The patients on …

Scientific disinterest: The Hindu Editorial on Union Health Minister’s presence at Coronil promotion event
3 years, 10 months ago

Scientific disinterest: The Hindu Editorial on Union Health Minister’s presence at Coronil promotion event

The Hindu  

The presence of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan at a press conference to promote Coronil, an Ayurvedic pill promoted by Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved, is objectionable on more than one count. Dr Vardhan, alongside Cabinet colleague Nitin Gadkari, was at a press conference with Baba Ramdev and other promoters of Patanjali to announce a scientific publication describing the efficacy of …

'Not Reviewed Any Traditional Medicine to Prevent Covid-19': WHO After Coronil Certification
3 years, 10 months ago

'Not Reviewed Any Traditional Medicine to Prevent Covid-19': WHO After Coronil Certification

News 18  

The World Health Organisation gave a clarification on the treatment of coronavirus with traditional medicines. “@WHO has not reviewed or certified the effectiveness of any traditional medicine for the treatment #COVID19.” This comes after Ramdev-promoted Patanjali Ayurved claimed that immunity booster- Coronil has received the Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product from the Ayush section of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation as …

SC Upheld AYUSH Ministry's Advisory, Allowed Homoeopathy as Add on to Covid-19 Care: Rijiju
3 years, 10 months ago

SC Upheld AYUSH Ministry's Advisory, Allowed Homoeopathy as Add on to Covid-19 Care: Rijiju

News 18  

The Supreme Court has upheld the AYUSH Ministry's advisory and permitted use of homoeopathy medicine as add on to standard care in COVID-19 treatment, said Kiren Rijiju, who holds the additional charge of the ministry, in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The minister said while homoeopathy treatment is not to be given in standalone mode for COVID-19 treatment, the ministry …

Homeopathy Can Be Used In Preventing & Mitigating COVD-19 As Per AYUSH Ministry Guidelines: SC Modifies Kerala HC Judgment
4 years ago

Homeopathy Can Be Used In Preventing & Mitigating COVD-19 As Per AYUSH Ministry Guidelines: SC Modifies Kerala HC Judgment

Live Law  

Homeopathy medicine is contemplated to be used in preventing and mitigating COVID-19 as is reflected by the advisory and guidelines issued by the Ministry of AYUSH, the Supreme Court observed while modifying some observations made by the Kerala High Court.The bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and MR Shah observed that the High Court is right in its …

Homeopathic Medical Practitioners May Prescribe Notified Drugs As Add-On Drug To Conventional Treatment For Covid-19: Centre Tells SC
4 years ago

Homeopathic Medical Practitioners May Prescribe Notified Drugs As Add-On Drug To Conventional Treatment For Covid-19: Centre Tells SC

Live Law  

The Central Government has informed the Supreme Court that specified Homoeopathic medicines can be prescribed as "add-on treatment" for Covid-19 and thus, it is incorrect to say that homeopathic medical practitioners cannot prescribe any treatment to Covid 19 positive patients. AYUSH Doctors Shall Not Prescribe Any Medicine As Cure For Covid-19: Kerala HC Directs Medical/Police Departments To Monitor In its …

Everybody Can't Be Allowed to Prescribe Medicines: SC on Ayush Practitioners Giving Govt-approved Mixtures
4 years, 1 month ago

Everybody Can't Be Allowed to Prescribe Medicines: SC on Ayush Practitioners Giving Govt-approved Mixtures

News 18  

Everybody cannot be allowed to prescribe medicines, observed the Supreme Court on Thursday while hearing an appeal against the Kerala High Court order which had said that AYUSH medical practitioners can prescribe government approved mixtures and tablets only as immunity booster for COVID-19. The high court had passed the order on a plea which had sought a direction to the …

Ayurveda Age-old Science, Not Placebo: AYUSH Doctors' Body Counters IMA's Poser on New Covid Protocol
4 years, 2 months ago

Ayurveda Age-old Science, Not Placebo: AYUSH Doctors' Body Counters IMA's Poser on New Covid Protocol

News 18  

An AYUSH doctors' body on Saturday welcomed the government's COVID-19 treatment protocol based on ayurveda and yoga as it asserted that ayurveda is an age-old, well-established science and "not a placebo", days after the Indian Medical Association criticised the Centre's move. The Integrated Medical Association said the government's new protocol will help evolve better management strategies for treatment of coronavirus …

How Can A Writ Court Decide If Allopathy Or Ayurveda Will Work For COVID-19 Treatment? Karnataka HC Asks
4 years, 3 months ago

How Can A Writ Court Decide If Allopathy Or Ayurveda Will Work For COVID-19 Treatment? Karnataka HC Asks

Live Law  

"How can a writ court decide whether allopathy treatment will work or whether ayurvedic treatment will work while treating a patient infected with COVID-19," the Karnataka High Court observed on Thursday while hearing a public interest litigation filed by two qualified practitioners of Ayurveda. Clinical Management Protocol: Covid-19" issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India …

AYUSH Doctors Shall Not Prescribe Any Medicine As Cure For Covid-19: Kerala HC Directs Medical/Police Departments To Monitor [Read Order]
4 years, 3 months ago

AYUSH Doctors Shall Not Prescribe Any Medicine As Cure For Covid-19: Kerala HC Directs Medical/Police Departments To Monitor [Read Order]

Live Law  

AYUSH Doctors shall not prescribe tablets or mixtures as cure for COVID-19, but only as an immunity booster, observed Kerala High Court while disposing a PIL.The bench comprising the Chief Justice S. Manikumar and Justice Shaji P. Chaly also directed the medical/Police Departments to monitor the action of AYUSH medical practitioners. AYUSH Doctors shall not prescribe tablets or mixtures as …

Medical experts oppose COVID-19 Ayurveda trials
4 years, 5 months ago

Medical experts oppose COVID-19 Ayurveda trials

The Hindu  

Medical experts and public health activists have objected to the ongoing clinical trials and claims made by a section of AYUSH practitioners on developing a medicine for COVID-19, pointing out that they violate government norms. Kalantri of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra and Mumbai-based surgeon Sanjay Nagral have written to the Medical Council of India against the …

Ayurveda for treating Covid-19 patients? India, US to initiate joint clinical trials
4 years, 5 months ago

Ayurveda for treating Covid-19 patients? India, US to initiate joint clinical trials

Live Mint  

Washington: Ayurvedic practitioners and researchers in India and the US are planning to initiate joint clinical trials for Ayurveda formulations against the novel coronavirus, the Indian envoy here has said. In a virtual interaction with a group of eminent Indian-American scientists, academicians, and doctors on Wednesday, Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu said the vast network of institutional …

Patanjali to sell Coronil as 'immunity booster,' not 'cure for COVID-19'
4 years, 5 months ago

Patanjali to sell Coronil as 'immunity booster,' not 'cure for COVID-19'

The Hindu  

Yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved on Wednesday said there are no AYUSH Ministry restrictions on selling Coronil, a drug the company recently launched as a medicine for COVID-19 but is now calling it a product to manage the disease. AYUSH Ministry has only given permission to sell this particular formulation as immunity booster and not as a medicinal cure for …

AYUSH Ministry is endangering people, jeopardising Ayurveda with lax response to Patanjali's Coronil and COVID-19, warn experts
4 years, 5 months ago

AYUSH Ministry is endangering people, jeopardising Ayurveda with lax response to Patanjali's Coronil and COVID-19, warn experts

Firstpost  

We can – and should – expect the same rigorous standards for clinical trials and regulation in alternative medicine as we do conventional ones. The real dangers of AYUSH’s messaging, without follow-through AYUSH’s approach of prescribing “preventive” medicine for COVID-19 brings out the plausible loophole that Patanjali themselves have openly flouted. The AYUSH ministry’s attempt to quell publicity around Patanjali’s …

Uttarakhand HC issues notice to Centre on Patanjali’s Covid-19 medicine
4 years, 5 months ago

Uttarakhand HC issues notice to Centre on Patanjali’s Covid-19 medicine

Hindustan Times  

The Uttarakhand high court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre on a public interest litigation alleging that yoga guru Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, CEO of Patanjali Ayurved claimed that the company’s medicine Coronil is a cure for Covid-19 when they hadn’t sought permission from authorities concerned for manufacturing such a medicine. The Uttarakhand High Court issued notice to the …

Coronavirus | FIR against Baba Ramdev, others on COVID-19 cure claim
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus | FIR against Baba Ramdev, others on COVID-19 cure claim

The Hindu  

Police have registered a First Information Report against yoga guru Ramdev and four others for allegedly conspiring to sell a fake Ayurveda medicine with the misleading claim to cure COVID-19 following clinical trials on some patients. The others named in the FIR were Acharya Balkrishna CEO of Ramdev-promoted Patanajali Ayurveda Limited, Patanjali employee Anurag Varshney, and Balvir Singh Tomar and …

Patanjali has submitted report on 'ayurvedic COVID-19 medicine', decision will be taken soon, says Centre
4 years, 6 months ago

Patanjali has submitted report on 'ayurvedic COVID-19 medicine', decision will be taken soon, says Centre

Firstpost  

The Ayush minister said that the ministry will look into Patanjali’s report and then decide about giving final permission to the company over the medicine. Panaji: Union minister Shripad Naik on Wednesday said that Patanjali Ayurved has submitted to the Ayush ministry its report on the company’s medicine, which it has launched with the claim that it can cure coronavirus …

Centre Asks Patanjali To Stop Advertisements About Unverified Ayurveda Medicine Developed To Cure Covid-19
4 years, 6 months ago

Centre Asks Patanjali To Stop Advertisements About Unverified Ayurveda Medicine Developed To Cure Covid-19

Live Law  

The Union Ministry of AYUSH has taken suo moto cognizance of the media reports about Ayurvedic medicines developed by Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. for treatment of Covid-19. It has informed the Company that such Meanwhile, the Ministry has also requested concerned State Licensing Authority of Uttrakhand Government to provide copies of license and product approval details of the Ayurvedic medicines being …

Coronavirus cure: Ramdev’s Patanjali launches Coronil, Swasari Vati for Covid-19 treatment
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus cure: Ramdev’s Patanjali launches Coronil, Swasari Vati for Covid-19 treatment

Live Mint  

Baba Ramev's Patanjali today launched 'Coronil and Swasari', medicine to combat and prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which has killed 14,011 people till date. The Yoga Guru claimed that the medicine, has been prepared by the combined efforts of Patanjali Research Centre and NIMS, has shown 100 per cent favourable results during clinical trials on affected patients, at …

Coronil, Swasari Vati: Patanjali launches Made in India ayurvedic medicine to cure COVID-19
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronil, Swasari Vati: Patanjali launches Made in India ayurvedic medicine to cure COVID-19

India TV News  

In a historic achievement, Patanjali Ayurved on Tuesday launched first 'Made in India' Ayurvedic medicine for treating coronavirus or COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Acharya Balkrishna, Chief Executive Officer of Patanjali had claimed that an Ayurvedic medicine developed by Patanjali has been able to cure Covid-19 patients. "Proud launch of first and foremost evidence-based ayurvedic medicine …

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