‘Won’t allow ‘spurious’ medicine sale in Maha’

Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Thursday said that legal action will be taken against Baba Ramdev’s company Patanjali, if it sells their anti-corona drug in the state. Terming Coronil, the drug launched by Patanjali as antiCoronavirus ayurvedic medicine, Deshmukh said that the National Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Jaipur will find out whether proper clinical trials of Coronil were done or not.

The home minister said that Patanjali’s medicine needs a permission from Union AYUSH Ministry and Indian Council of Medical Science.

“Despite not having any permissions, if they try to sell the medicine in

Maharashtra or advertise that Covid-19 can be cured with it, an offence will be registered against them,” he said.

The minister also posted on his twitter handle, “The National Institute of Medical Sciences, Jaipur will find out whether clinical trials of @PypAyurved’s ‘Coronil’ were done at all. An abundant warning to @yogrishiramdev that

Maharashtra won’t allow sale of spurious medicines.”

Meanwhile, the BJP came in the support of Baba Ramdev. BJP leader and legislator Ram Kadam said that how can Deshmukh call the medicine spurious without any investigation.

Responding to the home minister on Twitter, the BJPlegislator posted a document claiming that it was the approval of the NIMS for the clinical trials of Coronil.

“Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s tweet on Patanjali’s Coronil medicine on Coronavirus calling it as spurious. He also said that clinical trial approval from NIMS will be awaited. I would like to inform the Respected Home Minister that clinical approval is there,”Kadam tweeted.