The Barcelona College of Physicians (COMB) has sanctioned the physician and Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades with an 18-month disqualification from practising drugs for defending the antiviral and anti inflammatory properties of sodium chlorite, also referred to as MMS, and proposing it to deal with some circumstances.
The decision agreed by the Governing Board of the COMB, chaired by Jaume Padrós, to which EFE has had entry, rejects all of the allegations of Forcades, which included varied research that, based on her, help the proof of the protection of sodium chlorite and the indications of its doable effectivity in varied pathologies.
The skilled affiliation has imposed two disqualifications of 9 months every for the disclosure of sodium chlorite made by the physician and non secular and for having maintained a “manifestly opposite, steady and reiterated conduct with respect to the necessities which have been made” .
severe well being danger
The sanction decision considers that Forcades has defended “publicly, repeatedly and constantly in varied media shops, the advantages of sodium chlorite, to which he attributes antiviral and anti inflammatory properties.”
“This disclosure has been made in her capability as a health care provider, profiting from the authority that this situation attributes to her, resulting in misunderstandings and producing false expectations in society, particularly in individuals who could also be weak as a result of illnesses they undergo.”
Although Forcades acknowledges that sodium chlorite just isn’t a drugs, he defends finishing up extra research to seek out out its advantages, whereas the trainer within the file argues that the nun has maintained an perspective opposite to the Code of Ethics, “opposite to good religion, sustaining a speech that, along with missing scientific rigor, can generate a severe danger to the well being of residents who observe the undocumented data it gives”.
The file additionally contains the opinion of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) and the Pharmacology Service of the Vall d’Hebron Hospital, which don’t worth the medical research on which Forcades is predicated.
Sanction “unfounded”
Speaking to EFE, Teresa Forcades has described the sanction as “unfounded” and has introduced that she is evaluating along with her attorneys submitting a contentious-administrative attraction. She believes that there was “arbitrariness” within the initiation of the file, she maintains that the sanction “is irritating as a result of it has not taken scientific articles and publications into consideration” and affirms that she has not breached any requirement of the skilled affiliation.
Forcades has attributed his momentary disqualification to the drift of the College of Physicians for “imposing a single discourse and praxis with out accepting the professional plurality primarily based on scientific proof within the train of the occupation.” In this sense, he has given for example that the COMB has eradicated the faculty sections of homeopathic drugs, acupuncture and naturopathy and that the University of Barcelona has suppressed the grasp’s diploma in conventional Chinese drugs that it taught.
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