Dr. B.P. Hari Chandra
An open air Covid Care Center (CCC) started during the second wave of covid in India, on April 14, 2021, evolved as a benchmark in covid care. The center was started by Member of Legislative Assembly Sri. Nilesh Lanke of Ahmednagar constitutency, Maharashtra State, India under the guidance of Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhary (Ph.D) (Dr.BRC). With 1100 beds, it is the biggest in the country, perhaps in the world.
The center is treating all types of covid cases viz., symptomatic, asymptomatic, mild, critical, and terminal ones with zero charges, with finance managed by donors. The most important thing is that till now at the center there are zero death cases. Furthermore, there are no negative side effects like black fungus, white fungus, grey fungus, and other varieties of side effects. On the other hand, the covid positives admitted here also started falling into the track of managing their earlier problems like blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, COPD etc. The CCC has laid down a policy to admit any severe cases, even the ones not accepted, or treated as terminal cases by the conventional hospitals. Cases include those with oxygen saturation (SPO2) level <90% to as low as 35%, HRCT >10 and even as high as 20.
Every patient is welcomed with a mild hug by one of the Network of Influenza Care Experts (NICE), who are doctors; they wear no PPE kit. The seven-day treatment in the CCC includes yoga, diet, and sunlight walk. The patients at the center wake up at 5.30 am daily. After their daily routine cleansing, they participate in yoga classes. The treatment excludes use of any type of conventional medicines.
The diet includes a breakfast with only fruits followed by a cup of herbal tea. Lunch and dinner start with raw vegetables, which amounts to 50%, continuing with normal cooked food. Thus, the diet includes 33% fruits, 33% raw vegetables and 33% conventional food. The food exclusions (don’ts) are refined ingredients like the refined oil, refined salt, white sugar etc., animal products like the meat, eggs, beef, milk or milk products. Bakery products like bread, biscuits etc. are also excluded. Yoga includes shitalikaran vyayama (loosening exercises), surya namaskar (sun salutation), and pranayamas (breathing exercises). All patients walk in sunlight at least half an hour a day.
The patients who are in a state where there is breathlessness and require oxygen cylinders in conventional care, are made to sleep in prone position and air is blown with a simple handheld fan. Patients with fever over 101oF are given more of liquid-based or high-water content fruits/vegetables like the tender coconut, tomato, cucumber, watermelon etc., and are given wet cloth padding on the forehead, arms, and calf muscles. Further, the center arranges evening entertainment programs like dance, orchestra, folk songs, devotional songs etc.
There are over 750 NICE experts all over India, who have successfully treated over 60,000+ patients using this one-week protocol. Evidence-based books on the protocol and various aspects of covid by Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury are worth reading and are available online at https://biswaroop.com/free_e_book/.
Published April 22, 2023
About the Author
Dr. B.P. Hari Chandra is faculty at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. He can be contacted at bpharichandra@gmail.com.