Mistakes made in H1N1 epidemic are being repeated in COVID epidemic
An international alert message about COVID-19 by United Health Professionals to President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan:
We are health professionals of the international collective United Health Professionals, composed of more than 1,500 members (including professors of medicine, intensive care physicians and infectious disease specialists) from different countries of Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Oceania and, on August 26, 2020, we addresed to governments and citizens of countries around the world an alert message regarding the COVID outbreak. First, let’s start with the conclusions of the 2010 report of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the management of the H1N1 epidemic:
Yoga guru s Covid-19 medicine kicks up a storm in India
Health minister under fire for endorsing Coronil as Indian Medical Association decries an insult to the whole nation
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev speaks on a TV program in New Delhi in September 2018. (Photo: IANS/UCA News)
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) and experts have criticized the federal health minister for endorsing yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s relaunched Covid-19 medicine.
Swami Ramdev’s Coronil was relaunched on Feb. 19 amid claims that it can treat the global pandemic despite not having been clinically tested.
In a Feb. 20 statement, the IMA said that the false and fabricated projection of Coronil made in the presence of Health Minister Harsh Vardhan was an insult to the whole nation.
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The total tally of covid-19 cases on Monday crossed 1.10 crores and the toll reached close to 1,56,500.On Sunday alone, the country recorded 14,199 cases.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has expressed shock at the “blatant lie of WHO certification” of Patanjali’s Coronil and questioned Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for promoting the drug. In a strongly worded statement, the IMA asked Vardhan the ethics of such endorsement and release of “such falsely fabricated and unscientific product to the people of the whole country”. Yoga guru Ramdev had on Friday released a paper by Haridwar-based Patanjali Research Institute on Coronil, which it claimed to be the “first evidence-based ayurvedic medicine” against the coronavirus disease. “Coronil has received the Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product (CoPP) from the Ayush section of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation as per the WHO certification scheme,” said Patanjali in a statement.