Medical treatment not to blame for poor health: Hazare

January 31, 2012 15:23

As a controversy broke out over allegations that he was deliberately given wrong medical treatment in Pune, activist Anna Hazare today said he did not think he was given medicines with "mala fide intentions" by the doctors at Sancheti hospital.

His remarks came as yoga guru Ramdev levelled allegations that Hazare's condition was not improving because of the wrong medicines administered to him.

Defending Dr Kanti Lal Sancheti, who treated him after his fast in December 2011, Hazare said he knew the physician for the past 25 years and he did not subscribe to the allegations. "It is being said that I was given overdose of medicines and some (medicines) were not needed. I don't think that I was given medicines with malafide intentions. May be, my body cannot accept these medicines," he said in a statement.

Noting that Dr Sancheti was a Padma Vibhushan awardee, he said it was wrong to link it with his health. "He was awarded for his services over 40 years. I congratulate him," Hazare said.

Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal also refuted adverse reports regarding Dr Sancheti.

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