Health minister urged to take action against IAS officer Shalini Rajaneesh for her cure for dengue
- IAS officer Shalini Rajaneesh has invited wrath for suggesting people to have "home remedies" for dengue
- Rationalist Prof Narendra Nayak has now lodged a complaint with Health minister Ramesh Kumar
- Prof Nayak is of the opinion that the officer's remedies have not been testified by any doctor or scientific paper
FollowShalini Rajaneesh, principal secretary to health and family welfare department who suggested people to have onion and jaggery as a remedy to cure dengue has more trouble in store as noted rationalist Prof Narendra Nayak has now complained to Health Minister Ramesh Kumar.
Prof Nayak in his complaint has stated that Shalini Rajaneesh who is in a responsible position is misguiding people with unscientific information for cure on dengue. For, there are no scientific papers to support her claim and no doctor has certified her claim. This is misguiding the people and the officer should stop posting such information, Prof Nayak said in his complaint seeking to initiate action against the officer.
Shalini Rajaneesh had stated that dengue patients could have onion and jaggery pieces to increase the platelet count. Shalini Rajaneesh had also stated that these home remedies are easy to follow, no side-effects and easily available in order to encourage people to follow the post. Her post had also stated that these remedies enhance immunity power and cure fever. Her post had also stated that "Please share this and save lives." While the post saw many shares, some of them had expressed shock for making such "irresponsible" statements. After she was criticised in the media, officer Shalini Rajaneesh issued a press release stating that she referred to palm jaggery and credited her suggestions to Ayurveda practices.
Prof Nayak strongly condemning Shalini Rajaneesh's remedies had questioned the veracity of her post. According to him, this was not the first time that Shalini Rajaneesh was sharing such a "unscientific" remedy with people. Earlier too, she had posted about the urine therapy. This post has seen at least thousand shares. Yet the officer did not bother to verify the veracity of this remedy. According to Prof Nayak, such posts would be detrimental to the health care system in particular and in general encourage gullible people from follow those remedies and may skip medical treatment.
