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Senate President Vicente Sotto III
(Alexis Nuevaespaña/ Senate PRIB)
In an interview over radio DWIZ, Sotto echoed calls for the Department of Health (DOH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve the widespread use of the anti-parasitic drug for COVID-19 cure and prevention.
“Ako umiinom din ako (I am also taking it). [For] prevention. Once every two weeks,” the Senate chief said, citing testimonies of its supposed effectiveness as treatment and protection against the coronavirus infection.
The DOH and FDA has permitted the compassionate use of ivermectin for COVID-19 patients in two hospitals so far.
The FDA also allows the compounding of the investigational drug as prescribed by doctors. Doctors and pharmacies shall be accountable for the drugs dispensed to those who will take it.
President Duterte's warning of more COVID-19 deaths should prompt the Department of Health (DOH) to act fast to prevent it, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Saturday, April 17.
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Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Alex Nueva España/Senate PRIB/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Sotto issued the statement as he continued to question the basis of the government’s decision to reduce the tariffs for imported pork products and to increase the minimum access volume (MAV) for pork imports for a year.
“Tinatanong ko nga sa kanila, sino sa inyo ‘yong genius na nagsabi sa Presidente na dapat ibaba ‘yang taripa at itaas ang minimum access volume (I even asked them, who among you was the genius who told the President that the tariff should be reduced and the MAV should be increased)?” he told radio DZBB, a day after leading the Senate Committee of the Whole’s inquiry on the country’s food crisis and the move to open up pork importation following the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak.