Ramdev's 'quackery' has IMA fuming

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Ramdev's 'quackery' has IMA fuming

QUACK-FIX METHODS? IMA alleges people die at Ramdev's camps as they

are given wrong medicines.

New Delhi: He can perhaps be best described as the guru of

controversies. After he invited flak for his claims of having the

abilities to drastically effect the health of patients suffering from

cancer and HIV/AIDS, Baba Ramdev has now run into another row.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Monday accused Ramdev

of ''misleading'' people about the cure of life-threatening diseases.

The Association, alleging that people were dying at the Baba's camps

and were being administered ''wrong medicines'', went a step ahead

and said it will oppose ''quackery'' in all its forms

''Baba Ramdev's very successful magic concoctions need to be properly

tested before being used by human beings. Are the concoctions put on

trials before being marketed ? The Swami-turned businessman-cum-drug

manufacturer has to answer many questions,'' IMA National President

Ajay Kumar told journalists.

He also justified IMA's reasons for calling Ramdev a quack. ''People

who do not belong to any of the four streams of medicine approved by

the Government of India are quacks. They have to be stopped from

misleading and killing patients,'' he was quoted by PTI as saying.

However, while Kumar asserted that the Association was not against

Yoga, he also said there was no scientific evidence that life

threatening diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS could be cured only by

yoga.

Kumar said IMA supported the Union Health Ministry in taking action

against Baba Ramdev and would mobilise public opinion against the

Guru. ''The Yoga guru must stick to teaching yoga alone and not play

with the lives on millions of people by misleading them and casting

aspersions on the medical community,'' he said.

Kumar claimed that he had received threats for opposing

the ''malpractice of the Yoga Guru'', but would not file an FIR since

he did not have any proof. ''I have received threats for opposing the

Guru, but that will not deter either the IMA or me in stopping him,''

he said

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Dear FORUM,

Baba Ji is not the only case.

Almost everywhere quacks are playing with the lives of innocent people.

In Lucknow too, one Lavanya Ayurvedic Clinic is openly displaying hoardings and

panels on the UP state road transport buses claiming cure for AIDS and cancer.

Should we call it, state sponsored quackery!.

It must stop. Dear Union Health Minister, are you listning.

Manoj

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