WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has served a defamation notice on Ramdev for alleged disparaging remarks against allopathy and allopathic doctors, Demanding an apology from him within 15 days, failing which it said it will demand a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from the yoga guru.
The six-page notice served on behalf of IMA (Uttarakhand) secretary Ajay Khanna by his lawyer Neeraj Pandey describes the remarks by Ramdev asDamaging to the reputation and the image of allopathy and around 2,000 practitioners of it who are part of the association.
WHY RS 1000 CRORE?
Terming the remarks of the yoga guru a “criminal act” under section of 499 of the Indian Penal Code, The notice demanded a written apology from him within 15 days of its receipt, Saying a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore will be demanded from him at the rate of Rs 50 lakh per member of the IMA if he failed to do so.
The notice has also asked Ramdev to make a video clip contradicting all his allegations and circulate it on the social media platforms where he had uploaded his earlier video levelling them.
ALSO ON CORONIL
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.
FORCED TO WITHDRAW STATEMENT
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.
25 QUESTIONS
In an ‘open letter’ posted on his Twitter handle,
Ramdev posed 25 questions to IMA, which had objected to his video clip running down allopathy treatment for COVID-19.
He asked if allopathy offered permanent relief from hypertension (BP) and type-1 and 2 diabetes.“Does the pharma industry have permanent treatment for thyroid, arthritis, colitis and asthma?” he asked.Ramdev went on to ask if allopathy had medicines for fatty liver and livercirrhosis.“Like you found a cure for TB and chicken pox, look for treatments for liver ailments. After All, allopathy is now 200 years old.
He further asked what non-surgical cure does the pharma industry have for heart blockage.
“What treatment is there for cholesterol.”
“Does the pharma industry have treatment for migraine?”, or treatment for constipation and bloating amnesia without any side effects, he said.
The yoga guru went on to list modern day ailments such as Parkinson’s disease and asked if allopathy had any painless cure to treat infertility as well as to reverse ageingand increase hemoglobin.“Doctors should not fall ill at all if allopathy is all powerful and ‘sarvagun sampanna’ (having all good qualities),”he remarked.
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