Senior advocate Akhil Sibal, appearing for the plaintiff associations, told the court that even recently, Ramdev made statements in public advertising Coronil as a treatment for COVID-19.
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Patanjali says ‘received’ legal notice from IMA, will give ‘befitting reply’
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Patanjali Yogpeeth on Thursday confirmed that it has received a defamation notice served by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), demanding an apology from Yoga Guru Ramdev over remarks on allopathy, and said it will give legally a “befitting reply”.While responding to an e-mail query by PTI, a statement from the Patanjali Yogpeeth quoting General Secretary Acharya Balkrishna confirmed it and said: “We will give them befitting reply legally which way we do all things while serving our great motherland and humanity.”
The Haridwar-based organisation also said that Patanjali carries all the activities with “scientific and truthful temperament” and “cannot allow anyone to disparage, neglect and demean the great knowledge and science of rishis and scriptures”.
On Wednesday, the IMA had served a six-page defamation notice on Ramdev for his alleged disparaging remarks against allopathy and allopathic doctors, demanding an apology from him within 15 days, failing which it said the association will demand a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from the yoga guru.
The notice served on behalf of IMA (Uttarakhand) secretary Ajay Khanna by his lawyer Neeraj Pandey describes the remarks by Ramdev as damaging to the reputation and the image of allopathy and its practitioners.
The notice has also asked Ramdev to make a video clip contradicting all his allegations and circulate it on social media platforms where he had uploaded his earlier video.
It further asked the yoga guru to withdraw a “misleading” advertisement from all platforms endorsing “Coronil kit”, a product of his firm, as an effective medicine for COVID-19, failing which an FIR and a criminal case will be lodged against him by the IMA.
Besides, the IMA had also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that yoga guru be booked immediately under sedition charges for alleged misinformation campaign on vaccination and challenging government protocols for treatment of COVID-19.
On Sunday, Ramdev was forced to withdraw a statement made in a viral video clip in which he is heard questioning some of the medicines being used to treat the coronavirus infection and saying that “lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for COVID-19”.
The remarks were met with vociferous protests from the doctors’ association, following which Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan asked him to withdraw the “extremely unfortunate” statement.
A day later, the yoga guru posed 25 questions to the IMA in an “open letter” on his Twitter handle, asking if allopathy offered permanent relief for ailments such as hypertension and type-1 and 2 diabetes.
He went on to list modern day ailments such as Parkinson’s disease and also wondered if allopathy had any painless cure to treat infertility as well as to reverse ageing and increase hemoglobin.
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COVID-19: IMA ‘shocked’ over Patanjali’s Coronil claim; demands explanation from Health Minister
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The IMA on Monday expressed shock over the “blatant lie of WHO certification” for Patanjali’s Coronil tablet, which the company claims is an evidence-based medicine to fight COVID-19, and demanded an explanation from Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan in whose presence the medicine was launched.This comes in the wake of global health body, WHO, clarifying that it has not reviewed or certified the effectiveness of any traditional medicine for the treatment of COVID-19.
Yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved had on February 19 said that the Coronil tablet had received certification from the Ayush Ministry as a medicine supporting COVID-19 treatment as per the World Health Organization’s certification scheme.
However, Patanjali’s managing director Acharya Balkrishna later made a clarification about the certification through a tweet saying, “We want to clarify to avoid confusion that our WHO GMP compliant COPP certificate to Coronil is issued by DCGI, Government of India. It is clear that WHO do not approve or disapprove any drugs. WHO works for building a better, healthier future for people all over the world (sic).”
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In a statement issued on Monday, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) asked, “Being Health Minister of the country, how justified is it (for you) to release such falsely fabricated unscientific product to people of the whole country. Can you clarify the time frame, timeline for the so-called clinical trial of this said anti-corona product?”
“The country needs an explanation from the minister. The Indian Medical Association will also write to National Medical Commission for seeking suo moto explanation for his blatant disrespect to the code of conduct of Medical Council of India,” the IMA said.
“Indian Medical Association is shocked to note the blatant lie of WHO certification.,” it said.
Haridwar-based Patanjali Ayurved had also released what it claimed was research work supporting Coronil’s efficacy in COVID-19 treatment.
The announcement regarding the Ayush certification for Coronil and release of a research paper calling it the “first evidence-based medicine for COVID-19 by Patanjali” was done at an event attended by Vardhan.
In a statement, Patanjali had said: “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.”
However, WHO South-East Asia in a tweet said: “@WHO has not reviewed or certified the effectiveness of any traditional medicine for the treatment #COVID19.”
Patanjali had introduced ayurveda-based Coronil on June 23 last year, when the pandemic was at its peak.
It had to face severe criticism as it lacked scientific evidence regarding its efficacy.
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Skepticism surrounds relaunch of ‘Coronil’ by Patanjali
By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Yoga guru Ramdev on Friday released a research paper on the “first evidence-based medicine for Covid-19 by Patanjali” amid scepticism that the product claimed to be a cure for coronavirus may not have any scientific basis.Coronil, introduced in the Indian market last June during the peak of the pandemic, was relaunched on Friday in the presence of Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.
“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 a statement by Patanjali.
Under CoPP, Coronil can now be exported to 158 countries.
The CDSCO or the Ayush ministry have not yet clarified the claims made by the company so far. Last June, Patanjali launched ‘Coronil and Swasari’, claiming that these were not immunity boosters but “sure shot Ayurvedic cure” for Covid-19. According to them, it had shown 100 per cent favourable results during trials on participants.
The launch of Coronil, however, had drawn flak. Many said the claim lacked scientific data.
The company has been claiming that the medicine which costs Rs 545 can cure Covid-19 in three to seven days, but experts point out that most mild and asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 recover on their own.