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Advocates to distribute Ivermectin despite DOH warning enablePagination: false endIndex: Regulators and health officials are at odds over the distribution and use of Ivermectin capsules. With the conflicting positions, one lawmaker is going ahead with his distribution of the medicine. Congressman Mike Defensor vows to take the fight to court should his project get blocked. Carolyn Bonquin has the details.
(Sharon McCutcheon/UNSPLASH) SAGIP Party-list Representative Rodante Marcoleta and Anakalusugan Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor announced in a joint statement that they will be putting up their own community pantry, but to give out free doses of ivermectin. “After the inquiries conducted by two committees of the House of Representatives (Health and Good Government and Public Accountability) where both foreign and local experts were engaged on the potential use of Ivermectin, we have decisively come to a critical decision to distribute Ivermectin to those who are in dire need of this drug,” ...
Published April 23, 2021, 7:52 AM Lawmakers have prodded the Department of Health (DOH) to address the reported overpricing of drugs being prescribed to novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients. At the House inquiry Thursday, April 22, on the DOH and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policies for the registration, distribution and use of the potential COVID-19 drugs, AnaKalusugan Party-List Representative Mike Defensor presented receipts from various individuals showing their hospital expenses for buying medications for their treatment. One receipt showed that a patient in the C...
(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) CIDG director Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro made the statement as he confirmed that a CIDG operative indeed visited the office of a group identified with Anakalusugan party-list Rep. Mike Defensor in Quezon City amid reports the group has been distributing the anti-parasitic drug for animals in the area. “One of our personnel went there just to validate the reported information of distribution of Ivermectin in one of the barangays in Quezon City,” Ferro told the Manila Bulletin in an interview. “A former barangay captain was interviewed b...
Anakalusugan Party-List Rep. Mike Defensor (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) “The DOH continues to spend hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of pesos to buy remdesivir and tocilizumab, not to mention the purchases of private hospitals,” Defensor said in a statement. He cited the recent statement of treatment czar and DOH Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega that new imported stocks of the two therapeutic products were due to arrive in the Philippines to replenish its dwindling supply. Defensor, however, said remdesivir costs P28,000 for two shots daily to be taken for about three to five days, whil...