“But to begin with, the patients were given medicines that are given to the swine flu patients and thereafter drugs given to HIV patients were given. Luckily the cocktail worked wonders and the doctors saw sudden improvement in the health of the patients.” Said Rohit K Singh.

The three persons who tested positive were administered a combination of 200mg Lopinavir and 50 mg of Ritonavir twice a day besides Oseltamivir and Chloroquine that are given to the swine flu and malaria patients.

However, the doctors at the SMS Hospital warned that this was only an emergency treatment and the HIV medicines were used only as an emergency measure that could help in regaining normalcy. But such medication required following a regulatory process of randomized controlled trials.

A medical and health department officials said that the six states who have asked for the “magic medicine” have been advised to follow the drill adopted by the Jaipur doctors. But this should be regulated on case to case basis and a lot of observations will have to be made from time to time and the monitoring should be done by specialists and under a well-equipped quarantine environment.

Meanwhile, Governor Kalraj Mishra and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot have praised the grand work done by the SMS Hospital doctors which became a benchmark in the country.