New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to stop the “misinformation campaign on vaccination by Ramdev”. The IMA has also urged the prime minister to take “appropriate action (against Ramdev) under the sedition” law.
In the letter addressed to PM Modi, IMA said it would like to “painfully” bring to your notice a “video claiming 10,000 doctors have died in spite of taking both the dose of (Covid-19) vaccine and lakhs of people have died due to allopathic medicine”.
It said these allegations were made by Ramdev, and that the video has gone viral on social media.
“Indian Medical Association is proactively spearheading your commitment to enforcing vaccination to all above 18 years, as the tool to overcome the corona pandemic. When you initiated the vaccine rollout, IMA leaders across the country stood first to get the vaccine and by this dispelled the vaccine hesitancy,” IMA said in its letter.
“If someone is claiming that the allopathic medicine has killed the people, it is an attempt to challenge the Ministry who has issued the protocol for treatment to us,” the letter said.
The letter added: “In this corona war, as our doctors are serving in the front line and meeting out to salvage very critical people as on date as per registry, we have lost 753 doctors in the first wave and 513 in the second wave. None in the first wave could receive the vaccine and the majority who had died in the second wave also couldn’t take their vaccine for various reasons. Now deceitfully attributing 10000 people have died in spite of two doses of vaccination, is a deliberate move to stall the efforts of vaccination to reach our masses and it needs to be curtailed immediately.”
Through the letter written to PM, the Association said: “We appeal to your highness, to take appropriate action against individuals viciously propagating the message of fear on vaccination and challenge the Government of India protocols for treatment for their vested interest in their company products. This in our opinion is a clear-cut case of a sedition and such persons should be booked immediately without any delay under the charges of sedition.”