The licencing officer further said, “We’ll issue them a notice asking how they got permission to make the kit for Covid-19”
NEW DELHI| Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurveda was asked by the Ayush Ministry to stop all promotions of its claimed COVID-19 cure, a licencing officer from Uttarkhand government’s Ayurved department said the approval application for Coronil did not mention coronavirus.
While talking to ANI, Licencing officer said that Patanjali’s Coronil application only got licence approval as an immunity booster, and for cough and fever.
As per Patanjali's application, we issued them license. They didn't mention coronavirus, we only approved 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, Uttarakhand Ayurved Dept pic.twitter.com/I7CWKoJhbK
— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2020
The licencing officer further said, “We’ll issue them a notice asking how they got permission to make the kit for Covid-19.”
Soon after Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev’s, Patanjali launched the Ayurvedic cure for COVID-19, the government’s Ayush Ministry issued a notification, saying that it has sought details of the medicine such as name and composition, research study details, Institutional Ethics Committee clearance, CTRI registration and result data.
Till then, the government has asked Patanjali to refrain from advertising the medicine kit as COVID-19 cure. It may be noted that Patanjali’s corona kit includes Swasari Vati, Coronil and Anu Tel.
The ministry had also requested the State Licensing Authority of Uttarakhand Government to provide copies of license and product approval details of the Ayurvedic medicines that were promoted Patanjali as a cure for the deadly virus infection.
The notification said, “Ministry of AYUSH has taken cognizance of the news being recently flashed in the media about Ayurvedic medicines developed for the treatment of Covid-19 by Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, Haridwar (Uttrakhand). Facts of the claim and details of the stated scientific study are not known to the ministry.”
“In order to make this Ministry aware of the facts of the aforesaid news and verify the claims, Patanjali Ayurved Ltd has been asked to provide at the earliest details of the name and composition of the medicines being claimed for COVID treatment; site(s)/hospital(s), where the research study was conducted for Covid-19; protocol, sample size, Institutional Ethics Committee clearance, CTRI registration and result data of the study (ies) and stop advertising/publicising such claims till the issue is duly examined,” it added.
Ramdev baba claimed that the Patanjali Research Institute has invented Coronil an Ayurvedic sure for the novel coronavirus. The yoga guru went on to say that Coronil has been tested in a randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial on COVID-19 patients.
“We conducted a clinical case study and clinical controlled trial, and found 69 per cent patients recovered in three days and 100 per cent patients recovered in seven days,” Ramdev said.
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