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If anyone should be held accountable for any adverse effects of anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, it is the people who chose to take it, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Saturday, May 1. Senate President Vicente 'Tito' Sotto III Sotto issued the statement after medical and pharmacists
Philippine Medical Association (Manila Bulletin File Photo) The PMA said the current evidence on the use of Ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19 patients is inconclusive as declared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO). “Ivermectin must be prescribed and used within the same hospital and the prescribing doctor must inform the patient of this compassionate use category with unproven end result,” it said in a statement. “The drug Ivermectin may not be prescribed by any physician outside the designated authorized ...
Mike Defensor asks DOH to spare doctors who issued ivermectin prescriptions By JAMIL SANTOS, GMA News Published May 1, 2021 8:43pm Anakalusugan Party-list Representative Mike Defensor on Saturday asked the Department of Health (DOH) not to run after doctors who allegedly issued invalid prescriptions for the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin at a distribution project he and Rep. Rodante Marcoleta had organized. Last Tuesday, Marcoleta and Defensor, despite not being doctors, announced that they would distribute ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 on Thursday, April 29, in Quezon City...
endIndex: Metro Mania (CNN Philippines, April 30) — For staunch ivermectin advocate and Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor, prescriptions that were written on a blank paper during the recent distribution of the antiparasitic drug to residents in Quezon City counts as a "non-issue." "It’s a non-issue," Defensor told CNN Philippines' The Source on Friday. "It’s a non-issue because you only have four doctors, you have four tables. Alam mo naman yung signature nila (you could easily identify their signatures)." Defensor, Sagip Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta, and some physician...
By HANA BORDEY, GMA News Published April 30, 2021 10:05am The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must investigate reports of “token” prescription during the distribution of ivermectin in Quezon City, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said Friday. Duque was reacting to reports that doctors who joined Representatives Rodante Marcoleta and Mike Defensor’s distribution of ivermectin wrote their prescriptions on a piece of paper and not on a prescription pad. “Kung totoo man yon na nakalagay sa isang tissue or bond paper lang, so part of what the FDA needs to do is investigate su...