Representative image.
AHMEDABAD: Doctors in Gujarat have warned against a so-called cow-dung therapy , saying smearing of cow dung on the body does not give protection against coronavirus but may cause other infections including mucormycosis.
A small group of people has been visiting a cow shelter run by Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul Vishwavidya Prathisthanam (SGVP) in Ahmedabad to take the therapy, believing that it increases immunity against Covid-19.
The shelter houses over 200 cows. For the last one month, around 15 persons visit it every Sunday to apply cow dung and cow urine on the body. It is then washed off with cow milk, said an SGVP official.
Doctors are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off Covid-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases.
Doctors in Gujarat have cautioned that cow dung offers no protection from the coronavirus but may cause other infections including mucormycosis or black fungus.
Some believers in Gujarat have been going to cow shelters once a week to cover their bodies in dung and urine in the hope it will boost their immunity against, or help them recover from, the coronavirus.
“We see. even doctors come here. Their belief is that this therapy improves their immunity and they can go and tend to patients with no fear,” said Gautam Manilal Borisa, an associate manager at a pharmaceuticals company.
B 1 617 Covid mutation most prevalent double mutant in Karnataka- The New Indian Express newindianexpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newindianexpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated:
May 11, 2021 09:23 IST
Infection Control Academy president writes to KTR, says current dashboard doesn’t support patients or decision makers
Share Article
AAA
Citizens waiting at a free COVID-19 testing facility at a fever hospital in Hyderabad on Monday, May 10, 2021.
| Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G
Infection Control Academy president writes to KTR, says current dashboard doesn’t support patients or decision makers
A State-wide real-time bed availability Dashboard, along with a call centre for COVID triage (sorting) with operators routing the patients based on a simple questionnaire, will enormously reduce the pressure on healthcare workers and unclutter the overcrowded healthcare facilities, said Infection Control Academy of India president B. Ranga Reddy.
UPDATED: May 10, 2021 21:22 IST
Medical staff attend to a Covid patient in the ICU of Holy Family Hospital, New Delhi (Reuters)
The district hospital in Bihar’s Gopalganj district received three ventilators from the Centre in September last year. These were among the 60,000-odd ventilators the government had procured, for nearly Rs 2,000 crore, in response to the Covid pandemic; roughly 17,000 of them were dispatched to the states. But this April, when some patients at the Gopalganj district hospital needed to be put on ventilator, the life-saving devices could not be used due to a manpower crisis the support of an anaesthetist was not available.