Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, the company promoted by yoga guruRamdev, kicked up a storm on social media when it announced that it had found a medicine for the novel coronavirus.
Just hours after yoga guru Baba Ramdev claimed thatPatanjali has discovered medicine for COVID-19.? the Ayush Ministry of Uttarakhand clarifiedthat the licence issued was not to find a cure for coronavirus, but only for the production of immunity-booster kits and fever medicine.
According to ANI,the licencing officer said that as per Patanjali's application, they issuedthem the license. However, Patanjali didn't mention coronavirus, and thelicence was only approved for immunity booster, cough & fever. TheUttarakhand Ayurved Department will nowissue Patanjali a notice asking how they got permission to make the COVID-19kit.
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¡°As per Patanjali's application, we issued them a license.They didn't mention coronavirus, we only approved a license for immunity booster,cough & fever. We'll issue them a notice asking how they got permission tomake the kit for COVID19," Licence Officer of the Uttarakhand Ayurved Departmentsaid.
MoS for the Union Ayush Ministry, Shripad Naik, on Wednesday, said that his Ministry will clear its stance on pharmaceutical giantPatanjali's newly-launched ayurvedic drugs 'Coronil and Swasari' for the deadlyvirus after reviewing the report sent by it.
Dr. YS Rawat, Joint Director State Medicinal LicensingAuthority from Uttarakhand, said: "Divya Pharmacy did not apply for licenseof any kind of medicine related to Corona nor were they given any license inthis regard. The license was issued only for immunity booster kits and fever medicine.But now that it has come to the attention of the AYUSH department, a noticewill be issued to Divya Pharmacy. It their reply is not satisfactory then theircurrent licenses will be canceled."
Ramdev had launched 'Coronil' by claiming it to be the Ayurvedicmedicine for COVID-19. He even claimed to have cured COVID-19 prescribed patients with the coronil tablets. He said that patients can be cured in justone week with the use of 'coronil' medicine.
Ramdev said the drug trials were conducted in Delhi andAhmedabad and many other cities. He claimed that all 280 patients who weretreated with the preparations, recovered, and that a clinical trial was carriedout after this. The yoga guru added that necessary approvals for conducting thetrials had been taken from requisite authorities.
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The Rajasthan government will also file case against BabaRamdev for conducting clinical trial of Coronil medicine on coronaviruspatients without permission from the government. The Congress govt in Rajasthanhas said it is fraud and not a trial.