IMA Asks Govt To Book Ramdev Under Epidemic Act For False, Baseless Comments On Modern Medicine

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has launched a blistering attack against Yoga Guru and FMCG, Ayurveda businessman Baba Ramdev for comments he allegedly made against modern medicine.

The IMA in a statement urged Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan to either accept the accusation made by Ramdev and dissolve modern medical facilities or book and prosecute Yoga Guru under the Epidemic Diseases Act.

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The development comes after a video of Ramdev saying that allopathy is stupid science.

What Ramdev said

In a video that has been going viral on the internet, Baba Ram Dev said, ¡°it is shocking that Remdesvir failed, steroids failed and now plasma therapy has also been banned.¡±

He also said, ¡°the medicines doctors are giving patients for getting the fever down such as Fabiflu is not doing any good to them.¡±

¡°We have lost lakhs of people due to allopathic medicines and not due to shortage of oxygen,¡± he went on to claim.

Yoga guru claiming Allopathy as stupid science. This pandemic brings new shock every day. pic.twitter.com/1W9ojVOIGY

¡ª Subhasree Ray (@DrSubhasree) May 21, 2021

Alleging that Ramdev's comments challenge the wisdom and integrity of the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI) and the Union Health Ministry, the IMA said if action is not taken against Ramdev then the medical body will take legal action against him.

The IMA accused that Ramdev made the alleged remarks to mislead the public at large and the Yog Guru is making all false and baseless acquisitions so that he can sell his illegal and unapproved drugs.

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"Swami Ramdev deserves to be prosecuted for disobeying and cause danger to the life of many by making them believe and make them not to take the advice of allopathy drugs. His quote about Favipiravir as medicine against fever/antipyretic is laughable, childish, and demonstrates his in-depth scientific knowledge," it said.

According to IMA, Yoga guru is a corporate giant of a pharmaceutical unit and has made several false acquisitions about his company's productions time and again to mislead the public. ¡®¡¯The controversies on Coronil and Swasari are the well-known facts to all, and the criminal complaint in the court is a proof to his misadventures,¡¯¡¯ it said.

¡®¡¯All this is done by Swami Ramdev to take advantage of the situation and create a false sense of fear and frustration within the public at large so that he can sell his illegal and unapproved so-called medicines and make money at the cost of the public at large.

IMA HQs Press Release on 22.05.2021 pic.twitter.com/rrc1LXA24n

¡ª Indian Medical Association (@IMAIndiaOrg) May 22, 2021

This is not the first time Ramdev's Patanjali and IMA have locked horns over COVID-19.

Not the first time

The most notable being the war of words between the two sides over Coronil, an ayurvedic cure for COVID-19 developed by Patanjali.

While the Health Ministry went all out to promote the drug, IMA said its effectiveness has not been proven scientifically.

The yoga guru is also accused of making unscientific and illogical comments about COVID-19.

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Last year, Ramdev had claimed that if one applies mustard oil through the nostril, the novel coronavirus would flow into one¡¯s stomach and be killed by the acids present there.

Here's the subtitled version (English) of Baba Ramdev mocking the lack of oxygen: pic.twitter.com/EkEAnJdZDh

¡ª aarthi parthasarathy (@aarthipartha) May 8, 2021

Recently amid the acute shortage of medical oxygen in India, a video had surfaced online showing Ramdev mocking the plight of the patients.

"People are looking for cylinders outside while God has given you two cylinders right here inside you. Use them, fool!," he had said.