Prince Charles’ office refutes Indian minister’s Ayurveda link to Corona

LONDON: Prince Charles, who came out of self-isolation to remotely inaugurate the UK’S first makeshift National Health Service field hospital here on Friday, recovered from his COVID-19 symptoms by following NHS advice, his office said on Saturday.

Clarence House refuted reports from India which claimed that the Prince of Wales’ recovery after testing positive for coronavirus last week had a link to Ayurvedic and homeopathy cure from a resort in south India.

Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik claimed earlier this week that Dr Isaac Mathai, who runs the Soukya Ayurveda Resort in Bengaluru, told him that his treatment of “Prince Charles through Ayurveda and homeopathy has been successful”.

“This information is incorrect. The Prince of Wales followed the medical advice of the NHS in the UK and nothing more,” a Clarence House spokesperson said.

Charles, 71, has been a vocal supporter of Ayurveda over the years and had joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his UK visit in April 2018 at the Science Museum in London for the launch of a new Ayurvedic Centre of Excellence, aimed at creating a first-of-its-kind global network for evidencebased research on yoga and Ayurveda.

“You may be aware of Soukya because of its royal connections (Camilla and Charles love it here) and its high profile VIP clients. We know it as a very serious health sanctuary offering the best in Ayurveda healing a cure-it-all bolthole founded by the esteemed Dr Isaac Mathai,” notes the website of the Soukya resort in Bengaluru, reportedly frequented by the heir to the British throne.

However, Naik’s claim that the resort had a direct link with the royal’s recovery from coronavirus symptoms this week has been dismissed.