The Public Health Department of the BMC has allowed distributing homoeopathy medicine to tackle COVID-19 in wards like G-North comprising Dharavi and Mahim and K-West comprising Versova, Juhu, and Andheri. A letter by the executive health officer, the medicine will be given to 20 lakh people in these wards including those in quarantine through a private committee for free.

In a letter to the private committee, Padmaja Keskar, executive health officer of BMC said that the Union Ministry of AYUSH, Delhi has mentioned in its guidelines that Arsenicum Album 30 medicine is useful as a precautionary measure for COVID-19 pandemic. We have taken permission from the authority concerned regarding the distribution of the medicine. The committee will make available the medicine and enable its distribution. It will also guide people over how and when to consume medicine and submit a fulfillment report to the BMC.