COVID: Indian doctors denounce unapproved alternative medicines
Doctors have spoken out against an alarming trend of using unapproved medications to treat coronavirus infections. The comments come after a yoga guru promoted an unapproved treatment and denounced modern medicine.
Indian guru Baba Ramdev claimed he didn't need a COVID vaccine because he was protected by yoga and ancient medicine
Indian medical associations have spoken out against a trend of rejecting modern medicine and using unapproved alternative medications to treat patients infected with COVID-19.
Last month, yoga guru Ram Kisan Yadav, also known as Baba Ramdev, drew intense criticism when he called allopathy, or evidence-based medicine, a "stupid science," and claimed that hundreds of thousands had died by taking modern medicines.