{"id":324203,"date":"2020-06-24T03:54:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T03:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324203"},"modified":"2020-06-24T03:54:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T03:54:04","slug":"ayush-ministry-issues-statement-on-claims-of-patanjali-ayurved-regarding-treatment-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ayush-ministry-issues-statement-on-claims-of-patanjali-ayurved-regarding-treatment-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayush Ministry issues statement on claims of Patanjali Ayurved regarding treatment of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324204 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/patanjali.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/patanjali.jpg 692w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/patanjali-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/>Ministry of AYUSH has taken cognizance of the news being recently flashed in the media about Ayurvedic medicines developed for 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The concerned Ayurvedic drug manufacturing company has been informed that such\u00a0advertisements of drugs including Ayurvedic medicines are regulated under the provisions of Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and Rules thereunder and the directives issued by the Central Government in the wake of COVID outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry had also issued a Gazette Notification No. L.11011\/8\/2020\/AS dated 21st\u00a0April 2020 stating the requirements and the manner the research studies on COVID-19 with Ayush interventions\/medicines should be undertaken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In order to make this Ministry aware of the facts of the aforesaid news and verify the claims,\u00a0 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\u00a0 and results data of the study (ies) and stop advertising\/publicizing such claims till the issue is duly examined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ministry has also requested the concerned State Licensing Authority of Uttrakhand Government to provide copies of license and product approval details of the Ayurvedic medicines being claimed for the treatment of COVID -19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of AYUSH has taken cognizance of the news being recently flashed in the media about Ayurvedic medicines developed for 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. The concerned Ayurvedic drug manufacturing company has been informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5024,12750,2060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324205,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324203\/revisions\/324205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}