The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that Ministry of Ayush has permitted the homeopathic medical practitioners to prescribe the drugs, as mentioned in the guidelines, as an add-on drug to the conventional treatment for patients who have been tested COVID-19 positive and undergoing conventional treatment.

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. S. Reddy and M.R. Shah said the ministry's advisory lacks clarity on allowing homeopathic medical practitioners to prescribe even add-on or preventive treatment for COVID-19 patients. Ministry of Ayush in an affidavit, filed through advocate Rajat Nair, said: "prescription of the medication prescribed by the Ministry of AYUSH to Covid positive patients as an add-on treatment is permitted, and therefore, any contention to the contrary stating that homeopathic medical practitioner cannot prescribe any treatment to Covid-19 positive patients, even as an add-on to conventional treatment is liable to be rejected."