It is with sadness that I share with my followers that a colleague, Dr Shankara Chetty, was put on trial by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) on April 8 for his views and experiences on the treatment of Covid-19, and for his outspoken views on mRNA technology.
He is being charged for malfeasance.
In my opinion, Dr Chetty made an outstanding contribution during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He saved thousands of people in KZN from dying of Covid-19 with his novel and unorthodox approach to treating the disease.
He treated Covid-19 at a time when the World Health Organisation, academic institutions and regulatory authorities, locally and abroad, declared that there was no treatment for Covid-19.
Dr Chetty used simple, safe, inexpensive repurposed medicines without requiring supplemental oxygen.
This was an amazing achievement considering that the same type of patients were dying in droves in our sophisticated intensive care units, kitted out with costly artificial ventilators.
Dr Chetty challenges the narrative of the regulatory authorities.
The advice that was given to the medical profession was that doctors should not see or treat patients with Covid-19, but send them home to isolate; patients were advised to go to our over-flooded hospitals when they became short of breath or went blue in the face.
Dr Chetty, in accordance with his Hippocratic oath, challenged the prevailing advice/narrative by our health authorities and chose to treat and understand the disease.
He came to the conclusion that people weren’t dying from the virus but from the body’s response to the virus.
He felt that the lungs were being assaulted by an allergic reaction to the spike protein, which presented on the eighth day and responded favourably to a dose of a cheap drug, Phenergan.
Dr Chetty willingly shared his knowledge and experience in a paper that was published in the journal Modern Medicine, which is a journal for frontline doctors all over the world.
His successful treatment of Covid-19 went viral throughout the world.
He became an guest educator to doctors in Malaysia at the request of the Malaysian government.
He shared his knowledge and expertise on a variety of platforms, not just on Covid-19, but he also expressed his overwhelming concern about the efficacy and safety of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccine technology.
Having a difference in opinion in medicine is the norm and a catalyst for new ideas to treat medical conditions that defy conventional treatment.
Doctors, like Dr Chetty, are innovators, who dare to find solutions where conventional medicine fails.
They should be celebrated in the textbooks of medical history for their intuitiveness, their inquisitive minds and bravery for thinking outside the box to find unique solutions for unique problems.
The last thing we should be doing to these critical thinkers and heroes is to burn them at the stake like dangerous criminals.
Let’s hope truth and justice will prevail.
DR EV RAPITI
Cape Town
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