Ministry Clarifies Baba Ramdev Coronil Medicine Given License For Immunity Booster Not COVID-19 Cure
the Ayush Ministry of Uttarakhand clarified that the licence issued was not to find a cure for coronavirus. The license was issued only for the production of immunity booster kits and fever medicine.
Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, the company promoted by yoga guru Ramdev, 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 that Patanjali has discovered medicine for COVID-19. the Ayush Ministry of Uttarakhand clarified that the licence issued was not to find a cure for coronavirus, but only for the production of immunity-booster kits and fever medicine.
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According to ANI, the licencing officer said that as per Patanjali's application, they issued them the license. However, Patanjali didn't mention coronavirus, and the licence was only approved for immunity booster, cough & fever. The Uttarakhand Ayurved Department will now issue Patanjali a notice asking how they got permission to make the COVID-19 kit.
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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 to make the kit for COVID19," Licence Officer of the Uttarakhand Ayurved Department said.
MoS for the Union Ayush Ministry, Shripad Naik, on Wednesday, said that his Ministry will clear its stance on pharmaceutical giant Patanjali's newly-launched ayurvedic drugs 'Coronil and Swasari' for the deadly virus after reviewing the report sent by it.
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Dr. YS Rawat, Joint Director State Medicinal Licensing Authority from Uttarakhand, said: "Divya Pharmacy did not apply for license of any kind of medicine related to Corona nor were they given any license in this 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 notice will be issued to Divya Pharmacy. It their reply is not satisfactory then their current licenses will be canceled."
Ramdev had launched 'Coronil' by claiming it to be the Ayurvedic medicine 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 just one week with the use of 'coronil' medicine.
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Ramdev said the drug trials were conducted in Delhi and Ahmedabad and many other cities. He claimed that all 280 patients who were treated with the preparations, recovered, and that a clinical trial was carried out after this. The yoga guru added that necessary approvals for conducting the trials had been taken from requisite authorities.
We've prepared the first Ayurvedic-clinically controlled, research, evidence & trial based medicine for COVID19. We conducted a clinical case study&clinical controlled trial, and found 69% patients recovered in 3 days & 100% patients recovered in 7 days: Yog Guru Ramdev, Haridwar pic.twitter.com/QFQSVF0JIh
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The Rajasthan government will also file case against Baba Ramdev for conducting clinical trial of Coronil medicine on coronavirus patients without permission from the government. The Congress govt in Rajasthan has said it is fraud and not a trial.
