KABUL (Pajhwok): Health experts acknowledge the data disseminated on the treatment of Covid-19 with Tocilizumab Ampol and say that the drug is used to help the patient with Covid-19 and not as the main drug against Covid-19.
Claim: Tocilizumab is one of the effective drugs to treat Covid-19
Verdict: Tocilizumab is completely effective against Covid-19, but is helping to treat Covid-19 to some extent
A Daktarto online page wrote an article saying that tocilizumab has an effective drug against covid-19 when it is severe.
But what does tocilizumab look like.
Tocilizumab is effective in reducing the damage caused by Covid-19. In some cases, tocilizumab has reduced the number of deaths.
The Emna news agency in its report said that tocilizumab is effective against the virus and plays a positive role and is helping in the treatment of Covid-19.
However, continued use of Tocilizumab can have effects and lead to cancer and other life-threatening diseases, as this drug damages body tissues.
According to Relief Web, tocilizumab is the latest drug recommended by WHO for the treatment of COVID-19 after recommending dexamethasone in September 2020. It belongs to the class of drugs called monoclonal antibodies (mAb), which are used in the treatment of various diseases, including cancers.
However, most existing mAbs have an incredibly high value and are therefore practically for downloading in low- and middle-income countries.
“Doctors in many countries in Africa and Latin America, who are suffering with newer and more transmissible variants of the coronavirus, are suffering lately to keep their patients alive,” said Julien Potet, policy advisor on overlooked tropical diseases in MSF’s campaign.
“This medication may be imperative to treat others with critical and severe cases of COVID-19 and reduce the need for ventilators and medical oxygen, which are scarce resources in many places. take urgent steps to make this medicine available and affordable for all who want it by reducing value and moving technology, know-how and mobile lines to other manufacturers. There are too many lives at stake. “
Following the coronavirus outbreak, strong sales of tocilizumab and its price increase.
Naeem Hamidi, a pharmacist from Kabul’s Kuta-i-Sangi region, told Pajhwok Afghan News that after the spread of the coronavirus, the sale of tocilizumab ampoules increased because the drug is used to treat inflammation. He added that this drug is used in the hospital to treat Covid patients.
He said that this bulb, which was used for severe and even dying patients, at the beginning of the spread of Covid, its value reached 18,000 Afghanis, but that at the peak of the virus the value even exceeded 50,000 Afghanis.
But he said that lately the number of other people infected with covid has decreased, with the value of one ampoule of tocilizumab reaching 20,000 Afghans.
Medical experts: Tocilizumab is a successful drug.
Dr. Hashmatullah Faizi, quality officer and teacher at the Afghan-Japan Hospital in Kabul, told Pajhwok that this drug is provided to Covid patients.
He added that it is not the express drug to cure covid, but due to its effectiveness it is used as an auxiliary drug to reduce the symptoms of covid.
He added that tocilizumab is the only drug that is used in particular for severe Covid patients and monitors the severe state of the disease.
Faizi added that this blister has been used a lot to treat germs, the lungs of Covid patients are microbial, and this blister destroys germs.
At the same time, the news site “Khabar Online” published an article titled “New hope in the remedy of some severe cases of Covid / Relative recovery of the symptoms of this disease with the help of Iranian medicine” in the article by Dr. Kianoosh Jahanpo.
Tocilizumab is a regulator of the body’s immune system.
He said the drug had been used for covid patients and had shown positive effects and reduced covid symptoms from those who were inflamed with the virus.
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