New Delhi: Reacting to the Indian Medical Association’s criticism of the Centre’s Ayush protocol for Covid-19 management, the government has said the advice was based on Ayurveda and yoga after considering ’empirical evidences and biological plausibility’ as well as emerging trends from ongoing clinical trials.
The Union Health Ministry said the protocol has been recommended in addition to the standard treatment protocol for Covid-19 issued by the government and that Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had not suggested that clinical approaches to the disease be ignored.
IMA questioned the scientific basis of the government’s claims, days after the Health Ministry and the Ayush ministry released an Ayurvedic protocol for the treatment of asymptomatic and mild coronavirus patients coronavirus in India.
Criticising Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for the Ayurveda and yoga protocols for coronavirus treatment, IMA demanded to know how many Ministers have so far got the Ayurveda treatment upon being testing positive for the Covid-19 infection.
“Whether the proponents of this claim and his Ministry are prepared to subject themselves as volunteers to an independent prospective double-blind control study in prevention and treatment of coronavirus?”
“How many of his ministerial colleagues have so far made the informed choice of getting treated under these protocols? What is stopping him from handing over coronavirus care and control to Ayush Ministry”‘, it asked.