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Govt approves anti-parasitic COVID-19 drug
BY HARRIET CHIKANDIWA/RICHARD MUPONDE
GOVERNMENT has approved mass importation of the veterinary anti-parasitic drug, Ivermectin, as it battles the second wave of COVID-19 infections which have rattled President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration after killing five government ministers.
Robert Mudyiradima, the acting Health secretary wrote to the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) acting director-general Robert Rukwata directing that the drug be approved for use in the treatment of COVID-19 and that it could not “deny them (COVID-19 sufferers) effective treatment
regimes”.
“It is in this regard that authority is granted for you to proceed under section 75 of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act to allow importation and use of these medicines under the supervision and guidance you outlined,” Mudyiradima wrote on January 26.
By Robert Tapfumaneyi
CONTROVERSIAL Harare medical doctor Jack Stone is under fire for advocating off-label therapies she is offering to patients despite lack of clinical evidence the medicine is safe and effective.
Stone is advocating a worrying combination of therapy for patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and Covid-19.
In a letter of complaint to Ms Mwakutuya, the Registrar of Medical and Dental professional Council of Zimbabwe signed by Professor Rashida Ferrand, a Specialist Physician and Professor of International Health and Associate Professor Katharina Kranzer, an Associate Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, the health professionals said Stone’s actions needed urgent review.