Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey is working on cow urine to prepare medicines 

Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare is working on cow urine to make medicines and for treating cancer. "Cow urine is used in the preparation of several types of medicines. It is used even for the treatment of incurable disease like cancer. The urine of the indigenous variety of cow is often used. The Ministry of AYUSH is seriously working on it," said Ashwini Kumar Choubey.

"The government is working on the protection and conservation of cows," Ashwini Kumar Choubey said.

"Non-communicable diseases like diabetes and cancer are a challenge all over the world. We cannot claim to eliminate the diseases completely but we can control it and for it, the government of India has set a deadline 2030 under sustainable development goal," said Ashwini Kumar Choubey.

Ashwini also added that a proposal to include cancer treatment under Ayushman Bharat Prime Minister Jana Arogya Yojana has is under consideration.

Several comments on how cow urine is effective in curing cancer had come from several BJP leaders in the past. Sadhvi Pragya claimed before the 2019 general election that she used cow urine to treat her cancer, but she forgot to mention that she has undergone several surgeries for her cancer. Although if she was a cancer patient is still disputed.