Ayush practitioners can aid in treatment of Covid patients: Govt
Dhananjay.Mahapatra@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:02.12.2020
The Union government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that ayurveda, unani and homoeopathy practitioners can prescribe drugs for prevention of Covid-19 by boosting immunity but cannot claim that their medicines can cure such patients.
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta informed a bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R S Reddy and M R Shah that Ayush practitioners have been provided with guidelines to prescribe drugs for boosting immunity or for symptomatic treatment of Covid-19 patients.
The Ayush ministry said in its affidavit, “Keeping in view this unprecedented and unforeseen precarious situation, the health system preparedness of the country and the anticipated patient/conventional doctor ratio of the country, the ministry of Ayush decided to augment and strengthen the Covid medical response of the country by using the traditional healthcare system of the country, which included ayurvedic practices, homoeopathy practices as well as Unani practices.” It said homoeopathic medical practitioners were permitted to prescribe drugs, as mentioned in the guidelines, as an add-on to the conventional treatment for patients who had tested Covid positive and were undergoing conventional treatment.
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