The Bhopal district administration has withdrawn an announcement that Homeopathy had contributed to the recovery of six COVID-19 patients, after facing unrelenting backlash from health experts.
The announcement, made in a press release, went against an order of the Union AYUSH Ministry issued in April to all regulatory authorities “to stop and prevent publicity and advertisement of AYUSH-related claims for COVID-19 treatment” in the media. However, the withdrawal came only too late, by when several organisations had published the news.
According to the release, titled ‘A new ray of hope from Homeopathy treatment in Bhopal’, issued by the Divisional Public Relations Office, Bhopal, the Government Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital claimed to have found “a huge success” in treatment of COVID-19 patients using Homeo