Ganjam distributes 10k vials of immunity-booster pills to Covid-19 warriors

Berhampur: The Ganjam district administration has distributed around 10,000 vials of immunity-booster homeopathic medicines to its frontline Covid-19 warriors. The vials have been prepared by the government-run Biju Patnaik Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital here on the request of chief district medical officer (Ganjam).
“We have already distributed the vials to the frontline workers in the first phase,” said CDMO (Ganjam) Uma Shankar Mishra.The government has recommended the Arsenicum Album 30C as a preventive medicine to boost immunity that has been approved by the Centre.
The move comes as the district reels under the surge in Covid-19 cases that has already crossed the 5000-mark. Among them are over 500 frontline workers.
Vijayalaxmi Bisoi, principal of the homeopathic college and hospital said the medicine was supplied by the government for distribution. “We have prepared and supplied over 10,000 vials to the CDMO on his request,” she said.
More vials of this medicine is with the medical college and hospital after supplying it to the district administration. “We are now planning to write to the commissioner, BeMC, for distribution of these medicines in public,” she said.
The OPD which was functioning in the medical college and hospital was shut as the district administration set up the Covid Care and Covid Health Centre on the college premises. She has not received any request from any other districts of southern Odisha for supply of homeopathic medicine so far.
Former principal of the homeopathic college and a homeopathic practitioner P K Paty said there is huge demand from the people for the medicine after the central government recommended it as a preventive medicine. The government needs to supply more quantities of the medicine to be distribute among the people he said.
Earlier some state governments, including Kerala, Maharashtra, and Gujarat, had distributed the homeopathic medicines as a preventive.