Consultant Pathology seeks trials for his Ayurveda-based medicine for COVID treatment: SC junks plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed by a doctor seeking directions to the Centre and the Ministry of Ayush to conduct trials of a medicine which he claims to have developed for treatment of Covid-19.
A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud said that directions sought in the petition relate to an issue of policy in the area of public health .
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"The court is not in a position to assess the claim of the petitioner in regard to the efficacy of the Ayurveda-based remedy which he claims to have developed for the treatment of Covid-19. We, therefore, decline to entertain the petition, the bench, also having Justices R S Reddy and S R Bhat, said in its June 28 order.
"The petition is, accordingly, dismissed, the bench said.
The plea, filed by a medical practitioner working as consultant (pathology) at a hospital in Ghaziabad, claimed that in July last year he was successful in preparing a potent medicine to completely cure the ill-effects of the coronavirus.
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