Third hospital gets permit to use ivermectin vs. COVID-19
endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 22) — One more hospital has been given a compassionate special permit to use anti-parasitic drug ivermectin against COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration Director General Eric Domingo said Thursday, adding one more CSP application is pending with the agency. The FDA issued the CSP to a hospital, which was not named, on Wednesday, Domingo announced during a hearing at the House of Representatives. Early this month, two other hospitals, also unnamed, got FDA's nod to prescribe this investigational drug to COVID-19 patients. The FDA earlier sa...