In the light of the recent controversy of disregarding allopathic medicines in the treatment of Covid-19, the Yog guru Ramdev has made yet another claim which has left everyone stunned. In a yoga session at his Yog Gram center in Haridwar, Ramdev remarked that he had set a target to convert 1000 allopathic doctors to Ayurveda in a year.
A huge number of participants attended this yoga camp with Ramdev, who said that several allopathies holding MBBS and MD degrees were also present in the camp.
“These are the doctors who have faced the side-effects of allopathic drugs and have now turned to yoga and Ayurveda. Some of them have taken voluntary retirement from their practice and decided to follow our path. In fact, I have decided that in the next one year, our target would be to convert over 1000 allopathic doctors to naturopathy,” he said.
Ramdev took a jibe at IMA president Dr. JA Jayalal and said that he is “not aiming at religious conversion of the doctors like the IMA head is doing but looking at a transformation of their beliefs.”
He further said, “It is not bad to support and protect one’s faith and religion. Christianity is backed by big world powers, Islam has the support of a large empire, drug industry is backed by big powers, but yoga, Ayurveda, naturopathy- who will support them? It is you, the people who have supported them, otherwise nobody was taking these ancient sciences seriously.”
Last weak, Ramdev made it to the headlines when he claimed that the allopathic vaccines have failed in treating Covid-19. The remarks did not sit well with India’s medical fraternity, and it led the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Uttarakhand to send him an Rs.1,000 crore defamation notice.