Express News Service
PUDUCHERRY: Puducherry Lt Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan got some sample ‘2-DG’ drugs, the indigenously developed anti-Covid-19 drug, 2-deoxy-D-glucose or ‘2-DG’ from Telangana to Puducherry on Tuesday
The 2-DG drug has been developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), New Delhi, a lab of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in collaboration with Hyderabad-based pharma company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL).
The drug is effective and Covid patients improved symptomatically and became free from supplemental oxygen dependence, said Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan, who herself is a medico.
The medicine which is given for 10 days, provided an early relief from oxygen dependence gradually after four days. Stating that she has held discussions through video conferencing with the producers and requested them to provide the medicine to Puducherry when it is made available in all states in a week or two