Punjab government has allowed the treatment of COVID-19 with an anti-malaria drug

There is no specific cure for illness caused by a novel coronavirus. However, one drug has rapidly gained public attention that is chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Punjab government has allowed the treatment of COVID-19 with an anti-malaria drug.

Several of the symptoms of the novel coronavirus can be treated with the use of two malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.

These are effective in treating or slowing down the progress of the disease in critically ill patients.

Punjab government has allowed the treatment of critically ill patients with an anti-malaria drug.

These drugs are only approved to treat malaria and other diseases like arthritis.

Now results show that this drug is also effective in treating COVID-19 patients and helping to speed up recovery of the patient suffering from this deadly virus.

The government has procured more than fifty thousand tablets of the two malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.

The decision was taken by the government after US food and drug authorities approved the use of the anti-malarial drug.

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According to the New York Times, Chinese researchers found that the drug improved the condition of patients who were administered their cough, fever, and pneumonia go away faster than in the group that did not take it.

Mayo Hospital Lahore had previously started using the medication on critically ill patients of COVID-19.

China had also treated its critical patients’ distress from the deadly coronavirus and the US has also allowed its use to treat a patient suffering from coronavirus.

Prof Dr. Asad Aslam Khan, Chief  executive of Mayo Hospital said that

“Our physicians have started treatment of the critically ill patients of coronavirus at the Mayo Hospital and early reports propose that the drug is yielding progressive results,”

In Punjab, Mayo Hospital OPD has the leading set-up for coronavirus with 500 more beds added to the isolation and quarantine wards.

The patients testing positive at the OPD of Mayo hospital would be shifted to the Expo Centre.

For the first time, the government is going to start OPD service for suspected coronavirus patients only at Mayo and Expo Centre hospitals.

Added to that Punjab government has completed the 1000-bed hospital at Expo International center Lahore with a span of nine days only.

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The hospital has all the facilities contains separate medical equipment, a 50 bed unit with a fully functional ventilator and the patients will also be provided 3 meals a day.

The hospital will be functional as soon as the recruitment of 1900, doctors, nurses, and paramedics will be completed.

For conducting interviews to recruit paramedic staff, Dr. Aamir Zeman Khan Vice Chancellor of Fatima Jinnah Medical University was approached.

For now, the anti-malarial drugs is superior to the control treatment of pneumonia, improving lung infections, shortening the disease course, and promoting a virus-negative conversion.

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