The Indian Medical Association has written to Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan saying that AYUSH treatments prescribed by the Centre for Covid-19 has little scientific evidence and is not good enough to make claims of Ayurveda offering the medicines for Covid 19.
On Tuesday, the government released the National Protocol or Covid-19 treatment for prevention and treatment of asymptomatic as well as mild cases of coronavirus based on Ayurveda and yoga.
The IMA says that science demands that any medicine being touted as a showing efficacy in managing Covid-19 should have double blind control studies.
The IMA added, that if the government has so much faith in the alternate system of medication then it should hand over COVID care to the Ayush Ministry and if it can't then he would be inflicting fraud on the nation by passing off placebos as drugs.