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Fish medicine administration today

Staff Reporter

Hundreds make a beeline for Exhibition Grounds

FILLED WITH HOPE: Asthma patients at the Exhibition Grounds.

HYDERABAD: Despite differences of opinion over the efficacy of the fish medicine administered by the Bathini brothers on Mrigasira Karthe, it is faith that has been drawing asthma patients to the city from various parts of country and abroad every year.

Hundreds of outstation patients have already arrived for the medicine to be administered from 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Families were seen resting in the lawns and shelters put up at the Exhibition Grounds by the All-India Exhibition Society on Tuesday.

Food arrangements

Voluntary organisations like the Uttar Bharthi Sangh made arrangements to distribute food to all the patients for three days.

The sangh felicitated the Bathini brothers and the society office-bearers on the eve of Mrigasira Karte.

Responding to the felicitations, Bathini Harinath Goud asserted that the fish/jaggery medicine, taken for three years by strictly following the dosage and diet, would help cure asthma. He said the needless controversy over its efficacy would not benefit anyone. "It will only harm patients who endure great suffering as allopathy offers no cure," he pointed out. All the three Bathini brothers and their children would administer the drug, he said.

Refuting the allegations that the medicine contained steroids, he said the samples collected by a commission deputed by the court last year and sent for analysis revealed no presence of steroids. Alleging that some vested interests were spreading rumours, he said it was for the patients to decide about it. "No one approached us for samples other than the commission deputed by the court."

He thanked the Government departments, the exhibition society and various voluntary organisations involved in the arrangements.

The sangh chairman, Ashok Singh, and the president, N.K. Singh, and the exhibition society secretary, B. Srinivasa Rao, spoke.

Banners put up

Meanwhile, the district authorities, in compliance with court orders, put up banners at the venue stating that the medicine contained no curative substances. The Jana Vignana Vedika, which filed the case, and the noted scientist, P.M. Bhargava, welcomed the court's directions. The vedika condemned the threat calls it has allegedly been receiving to its office. Its president, M. Geyanand, and the general secretary, V. Balasubramanyam, in a statement said that such calls would not deter them from the movement to prove that the fish medicine was no good.

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