According to the circular from the office of the director of homeopathy, it was directed that “those who are in need, may be supplied the preventive medicine for the kind of fever existing in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts.Kozhikode: Various associations of the homeopathy doctors on Tuesday condemned the stance of their director, Dr K Jamuna, in the mix-up over distribution of medicines through government dispensaries as a preventive medicine in light of the Nipah virus outbreak. The representatives from Institution of Homeopaths Kerala (IHK) and Indian Homeopathic Medical Association (IHMA) alleged that the homeopathy director played safe with the circular distributed after their high power meeting and the subordinates had to bear the brunt of the allegations of 'fake medicine'.
The doctors alleged that there was a strong conspiracy to tarnish their school of medicine and they were being denied even the chance to give medicine to the affected patients during the Nipah outbreak.
“There are no side-effects for homeopathic medicines, if taken in the prescribed dose. Even now, there are no proven medicines in allopathy, against Nipah. When there is no particular medicine found out, and the condition of no-side effects exists for another branch of medicine, why preventing us from at least testing it?” asked IHK state president Dr Unnikrishnan B Nair.
According to the circular from the office of the director of homeopathy, it was directed that “those who are in need, may be supplied the preventive medicine for the kind of fever existing in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts. However, this should not create unnecessary panic with advertisements or through camps.” The circular also directed the dosage of the medicines, Belladona and Calcarb.
However, when some of the patients, who had fever and consumed medicines distributed through the dispensaries complained of fatigue and uneasiness, the director as well as Kozhikode homeopathy DMO disowned the responsibility, pointing out the technical issues in the circular, where name of the disease – Nipah, was not mentioned. The doctors who attended a press conference in Kozhikode said that since there was no call to withdraw the earlier issued circular, it is to be assumed that the distribution of medicines was legal.
