A content on a website Madhusar.com claimed that Madhusar, an Ayurvedic drug said to be a wonder drug to cure diabetics was tested and underwent trial in the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune. The website claims that Madhusar has been independently tested by the hospital and has shown incredible results in more than 70 percent of the people who have tried this herbal supplement. The other 30 percent have shown marked improvement.
Anyone with commonsense would question as to the authenticity of the claims. No details have been furnished about the age, religion, locality and the numbers of patients that have undergone the trial, their addresses or their OPD case paper details, the duration of the drug that they took and got cured or reliefed. The mind boggling factor is also that the names of the doctors and their qualifications are not mentioned either.
Whispers doing the round in the hospital say that Madhusar was never independently tested in the Sassoon General Hospital, and neither there are any official hospital records of the patients, or any evidence of their getting cured or reliefed. All the details on the website are fudged and fake claims. The website should have proved the facts of the Madhusar drug by furnishing testimony of some of the patients out of the 70 percent who have benefitted and cured and also about the 30 percent of other patients.
This drug has not been approved by the state government and is not even on the Rate Contract of the Directorate of Medical Educational and Research (DMER) or even of the Public Health Department (PHD) of the state government. Therefore in view of this factor, and without providing any evidence of the success of Madhusar drug, it would be harmful and dangerous to consume it. Definetely it is a risk factor.
Doctors in the hospital are surprised by these fake claims and whispering as to how this drug which was never tested officially in the hospital (it cannot undergo trials without government permission) is allowed to put in such fake claims on the website. The state government should take this seriously and take immediate action as well investigate as to how this drug was allowed to be tested, if at all it is true, without prior government function, and how the people associated with the manufacturing of drugs were making such claims.
We all beleive that no one should be allowed to play with the lives of people, specially with a dangerous disease like diabetes. The Maharashtra government should not sleep over such kind of publicity by the manufacturers of the drug.
There are also whispers in the hospital, that Dr. P.S. Pawar, the Medical Superintendent, of the hospital, who is a partner in the drug manufacturing company and husband of Dr. Geeta Pawar, one of the other partners of the company, has been playing a key role in promoting this alleged fake medicine and exerting undue pressure politically and otherwise on the doctors of the hospital to give clearance to the drug, which is being resisted by doctors of the medicine department. Such an direct and open involvement of an government servant is unethical and against conduct rules of the government.
Any medicine that brings cheers and relief to the patient and alleviate their sufferings is most welcome, but then this cannot be done without several years of trials and proof. And this has not been done by the manufacturers of the Madhusar. Let such people do not play with the lives of people just for milking money.
