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With Yoga Guru Ram Dev on his official twitter handle @yogrishiramdev releasing an open letter on May 24 and IMA sending him a legal notice for questioning the efficacy of allopathic medicines,the tiff instead of ending, seems to grow into a major standoff. A report by SHVETA MISHRA<\/p>\n
It was only on May 23 that Yoga guru Baba Ramdev had tendered an apology and withdrawn his controversial comments about allopathy and other modern medicinal methods. This came close on the heels of Union health minister Harsh Vardhan writing to Ramdev, asking for a withdrawal of the statement in which he had derided allopathic methods of treatment and the drugs used to treat Covid-19.<\/p>\n
Replying to Harsh Vardhan, Ramdev had said that he was withdrawing his statement to put an end to the debate about the conflict between various methods of medicine.<\/p>\n
However, a day later on May 24, Yoga Guru asked the IMA if allopathy offered permanent relief for ailments, such as hypertension and diabetes. In an \u2018open letter\u2019 posted on his Twitter handle, Ramdev posed 25 questions to the IMA, which had objected to his viral video running down allopathy treatment for Covid-19. Ramdev was forced to withdraw a statement made in the viral video clip in which he is heard saying that \u201clakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19\u201d. He is also heard questioning some of the medicines being used to treat Covid-19. The remarks were met with vociferous protests from the doctors\u2019 association, following which Union health asked him to withdraw the \u201cextremely unfortunate\u201d statement.<\/p>\n
When Ramdev withdrew the statement, it seemed, the controversy would die down as the Union Minister had lauded the maturity of the yoga guru for withdrawing the statement. However, Ramdev retracted and in his 25 questions he asked if allopathy offered permanent relief from hypertension (BP) and type-1 and 2 diabetes. \u201cDoes the pharma industry have permanent treatment for thyroid, arthritis, colitis and asthma?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
Ramdev went on to ask if allopathy had medicines for fatty liver and liver cirrhosis. \u201cLike you found a cure for TB and chicken pox, look for treatments for liver ailments. After All, allopathy is now 200 years old.\u201d He further asked what non-surgical cure the pharma industry has for heart blockage. \u201cWhat treatment is there for cholesterol?\u201d he said. \u201cDoes the pharma industry have treatment for migraine?\u201d, or treatment for constipation and bloating amnesia without any side effects, he said.<\/p>\n
The yoga guru went on to list modern day ailments such as Parkinson\u2019s disease and asked if allopathy had any painless cure to treat infertility as well as to reverse ageing and increase hemoglobin. \u201cDoctors should not fall ill at all if allopathy is all powerful and \u2018sarvagun sampanna\u2019 [having all good qualities],\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Indian Medical Association had sent a legal notice to yoga guru Ramdev over his alleged remarks against allopathy and \u201cdefaming\u201d modern science. The IMA demanded action against Ramdev for his statements on allopathy (modern medicine) in a video circulating on social media. In a statement, the association condemned Ramdev\u2019s words and said that the Union Health Minister either accept the accusation and dissolve modern medical facilities or prosecute him and book him under Epidemic Diseases Act.<\/p>\n
The IMA, the country\u2019s largest doctors\u2019 association, demanded action against Ramdev pointing out, \u201cThey pretend to throw mud on Modern Allopathic Medicine, but time and again benefitted through the back door in modern medicine hospitals when they get the disease. Taking people for ransom, selling them weird ideology, and winning business by defaming scientific medicine are unpardonable offences.\u201d In a statement, the association said, \u201cIMA brings to the notice of our Hon. Health minister, a video circulating in social media portraying, the celebrated Yoga Guruji saying that \u2018modern allopathy ek aisi stupid aur diwaliya science hai\u2019 (modern allopathy is a stupid and failed science).\u201d<\/p>\n
Subsequent to this, in a strongly worded letter, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan asked Baba Ramdev, the founder of Patanjali Ayurved, to \u201ccompletely withdraw\u201d his \u201cobjectionable and unfortunate statement\u201d against allopathic treatment as it can \u201cbreak the morale of doctors and weaken our fight against coronavirus pandemic\u201d. The Union Minister had posted the letter on Twitter, tagging Ramdev. Subsequent to this, Ramdev responded to the tweet with a letter of his own in which he wrote that he \u201cwithdraws\u201d his statement. \u201cWe have also, by using ayurveda and yoga, saved many lives during the pandemic; this also should be respected,\u201d Ramdev wrote.<\/p>\n
The exchange came a day after the Indian Medical Association sought action against Ramdev under the Epidemic Diseases Act for what it described as a \u201cvitriolic accusation\u201d against modern medicine. To diffuse the situation, Dr. Harsh Vardhan wrote that \u201ccalling the allopathic treatment for Corona as tamasha, bekaar and diwaliya is unfortunate\u201d. Stating that \u201ccitizens are extremely upset about your comments on allopathy and doctors\u2019\u2019, he wrote that \u201cit is extremely unfortunate that you said that lakhs of corona deaths have occurred due to allopathic medicine\u201d.<\/p>\n
Following the IMA\u2019s criticism, Patanjali Yogpeeth general secretary Acharya Balkrishna had said that Ramdev has \u201cno ill-will against modern science and good practitioners of modern medicine\u201d and \u201cwhat is attributed against him is false\u201d. \u201cIt is necessary to mention that the event was a private event and Swamiji was reading out a forwarded WhatsApp message received by him and various other members who were participating in the event,\u201d Balkrishna said.<\/p>\n
In his letter, Harsh Vardhan suggested that Balkrishna\u2019s clarification was \u201cinadequate\u201d. \u201cI hope, by giving a serious thought over this issue, and by respecting the emotions of corona warriors worldwide, you would completely withdraw your objectionable and unfortunate statement,\u201d he wrote in the letter to Ramdev. \u201cDuring the pandemic, allopathy and the doctors associated with it, have given a new life to crores of people. In this fight, the way the doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers have put their lives at risk to save the lives of others, and the commitment towards their duty and human service is unprecedented and incomparable,\u201d his letter said.<\/p>\n
Today lakhs of people are recovering and going home. The country\u2019s fatality rate is only 1.13 percent and recovery rate is 88 per cent; behind this is the important contribution of allopathy and doctors,\u201d it said. \u201cYou should know that diagnosis for smallpox, polio, ebola, SARS, and tuberculosis has been offered by only allopathy. Today, vaccines have become an important weapon against fighting the pandemic; this is also due to allopathy. In your clarification, you have only said that your intention was not against modern medicine and good doctors. I find your clarification inadequate. Your statements are not only disrespectful for the Corona warriors but deeply hurt people\u2019s emotions,\u201d it said. \u201cIn these times, calling the current treatment protocols as farce, not only raises questions on allopathy but also on the ability, competence, intentions of the doctors; this is disrespectful. Your statements can prove to break the morale of doctors and weaken our fight against the pandemic,\u201d the Minister wrote.<\/p>\n
Ramdev later wrote that he respects the fact that allopathy doctors have put \u201ctheir lives at risk\u201d to save others.\u00a0 He reiterated that he was reading out a forwarded WhatsApp message received by him and various other members who were participating in the event. He also said that \u201csome allopathy doctors\u201d should not \u201cdisrespect\u201d ayurveda and yoga.<\/p>\n
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