The death of a retired headmaster, who claimed that he had recovered from Covid-19 after taking the Ayurvedic medicine of Bonige Anandaiah from Krishnapatnam village, casts shadow on the efficacy of his medicine.
While the Jagan Mohan Reddy government on Monday afternoon gave the green signal to Anandaiah for distribution of the miracle medicine, except eye drops, the death of Kotaiah, a retired headmaster from Kota village in the morning came as a rude shock to the family.
Apparently, doctors at the Government General Hospital in Nellore said Kotaiah died of Covid and 80 per cent of his lungs got damaged, despite taking Anandaiah’s medicine. He was also suffering from several co-morbidities, the doctors said.
It was only after Kotaiah’s claim that he had come out of the pangs of the death after being administered eye drops by Anandaiah that the medicine that the Anandaiah medicine has become popular.
The video recording of his statement went viral in the social media and thousands of people started thronging the village.
Subsequently, the state government stopped the distribution of Krishnapatnam medicine pending reports from various labs and experts.
However, following the death of Kotaiah, people have started raising doubts over the efficacy of the Anandaiah medicine.
The government, too, while giving permission to the medicine, declared that it won’t cure Covid. It only said there were no harmful effects to the medicine.
It remains to be seen whether the Anandaiah medicine will receive the same response now as it was getting till recently.