Organic molecules to cure diseases developed

Guwahati, Apr 29: An Asom-based cardiologist has claimed to have developed organic molecules to cure diseases like diabetes, coronary arteriosclerosis, hypertension, hepatitis B and blood cancer.

Dr Dhani Ram Barua of Sonapur, in the outskirts of Guwahati, had come up with an observation that cardiac surgery had 'miserably' failed to provide permanent solution for the heart diseases as these are genetic.

'' What medical sciences have suggested till now is wrong.

Physicians are going in a wrong direction. Heart diseases occur due to biochemical derangement in human body and it has to be corrected by reversing the derangement, not by mechanical means like bypass surgery, angioplasty and stenting,'' he said.

The doctor from Glasgow-based Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons said it had been found through 'MICROARRAY' that the genes were responsible for cardiac problems.

He had analysed the changes before and after engineering the Baruah organic molecules, 'Barua Alpha DH2 and Barua Beta DH2,' as they have been named.

''Coronary artery disease is cured by irreversible angiogenesis providing adequate oxygen at subcellular level and removing excessive intracellular calcium responsible or inadequate ATP synthesis,'' he said.

Maintaining that a bypass surgery can neither supply oxygen at subcellular level nor can remove excessive intracellular calcium, thereby ejection power of myocardium could not be improved and the sufferer could not be prevented from premature death, Dr Barua said, ''by decoding the defective DNA, physiological correction of blood flow is achieved, which increases the incidence of survival rate.'' Claiming to be the first in the world to pioneer genetical treatment of diseases which go beyond surgeries, the doctor says he has developed the ''tools'' to apply genetic engineering clinically, which medical science has failed so far.

Cautioning that drugs like Aspirin and Beta-Blockers cannot reduce the ''viscosity'' of blood, leading to complications like bleeding, ulceration, dilation of heart and pulmonary congestion, the surgeon claimed that synthetic molecules cannot engineer genes. ''It will take another 100 years for the world to understand my theory,'' he said, adding he had cured more than a dozen patients suffering from varied diseases like diabetes, hepatitis B, hypertension, blood pressure, kidney failure by engineering the DNA and RNA.

''After 10 years of research, I observed that there is no choice of treatment of these dreaded diseases except engineering the diseased genes or decoding the DNA,'' Dr Barua asserted.

In fact, he pointed to a number of patients who had been cured by his organic molecules which engineer the genes.

''My heart valves had become inactive, WBC increased up to 71500, platelets came down to 28,000. I was helpless. All the doctors were puzzled. Then I came to Mr Dhani Ram. I was administered 7 injections, and I feel full relief now,'' said one of the cured patients, Kumud Sarma.

Sarma, who is the working president of the Asom unit of the Samajwadi Party, said now his heart functioned normally and he will no longer require a pacemaker.

Lalit Gogoi, an employee in the State Excise Department, also claimed that Dr Barua's treatment cured him of heart disease from a stage in which doctors said his survival chances were remote.

Similarly, nearly a dozen patients, suffering from sundry diseases like hypertension, diabetes, blood pressure and heart ailments said they were fit after Dr Barua medicated them.

Significantly, Dr Barua had shot to limelight in 1997 after he transplanted pig organs into a 32-year-old man with the end stage of a heart disease. The state government had detained Dr Barua for 40 days then, on charges that he had violated the country's Human Organ Transplantation Act.

Arguing that the authorities had obstructed his research, tarnished his reputation, and prevented him from performing even routine open heart surgery by cutting off electricity and water supplies to his hospital, Dr Barua had filed a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission seeking compensation.

UNI