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Ayush ministry denies claims made by NICE on Covid-19 treatment protocol as baseless
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Neethikrishna, Mumbai
July 31 , 2021
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The Union Ministry of Ayush has announced that some misleading claims have been made by a naturopathy related Network of Influenza Care Experts (NICE) and have been published by some media platforms without journalistic verification.
The main claim is regarding developing a protocol of treatment of Covid-19 that has been approved by the Union Ministry of Ayush.
The claimant has unethically and misleadingly attributed Ministry of Ayush’s approval to it. The Ayush ministry strongly denies all such claims of NICE and considers the publication of related news as completely misleading and baseless, said the statement issued by the Ayush ministry.
National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Pune has clearly said that NICE has made some tall and misleading claims. The claim is regarding management/treatment of Covid-19 and NICE has wrongly attributed approval of its said protocol by the Ayush Ministry.
The Ayush Ministry further clarifies that the said agency, NICE, has not submitted any application for these-called protocol to the Ayush Ministry. If any proposal related with Covid-19 treatment or management is submitted to the Ministry by NICE, it will get it thoroughly examined by the Interdisciplinary Technical Review Committee (ITRC). The committee has a well-established and rigorous scientific screening process for such validation.
“Without the approval of this committee, no Ayush streams related agency can claim to have developed a protocol. NICE has done a very unethical, illegal and baseless act in claiming to have developed an Ayush Ministry approved naturopathy-based protocol for Covid-19 treatment. Equally serious is its act of using the name of the ministry without ministry’s explicit permission,” it further stated.
NICE like false claims fall under punishable offence according to order no. 40-3/2020-DM-II (A), dated March24, 2020 of the Ministry of Home Affairs and order no. 1-29/2020-pp (Pt II), dated March 24, 2020 of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). These orders make false claims as punishable offence so as to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the country. Some media organisations have published the false claim made by NICE without verifying the facts from the Ayush Ministry.
It is further emphasized that NIN, Pune, working under the auspices of the Ministry of Ayush, has already clarified in the local media that it not only strictly adheres by the guidelines prescribed by the ministry of home affairs for the management, treatment and prevention of Covid-19 but also promotes these guidelines through IEC material and various activities.
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