LETTER: Data on chloroquine not in yet
There are still issues of side effects and toxicity
29 March 2020 - 20:16
A few days ago SA Health Products Regulatory Authority CEO Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela told doctors to stop the “irrational prescribing of chloroquine”. This was a reasonable warning after it was widely reported that pharmacists were running out of chloroquine.
Though at the time chloroquine was one of several promising drugs under review for the treatment of Covid-19 — in addition to Kaletra, interferon alfa-2b, Remdesivir and Lopinavir-ritonavir — according to the World Health Organisation chloroquine was not yet licensed as a treatment...
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