Posted on 04/26/2021 8:25:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two more hospitals in the Philippines have been granted compassionate special permit (CSP) for the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin on COVID-19 patients, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday.
There are now five hospitals that have been issued a CSP for ivermectin, FDA chief Eric Domingo confirmed to GMA News Online.
Domingo previously made clear that a CSP is not a marketing authorization, meaning ivermectin cannot be sold commercially yet.
A CSP is also not an FDA endorsement of a drug’s quality and efficacy.
“[The] concept is you have a patient who is suffering and you don’t have anything else to give the patient, and there is a drug that is available somewhere else and you ask for permission to use this investigational drug on this patient,” Domingo said in an interview on ANC.
“On those grounds, we grant it because we do accept that it is an investigational drug for COVID-19,” he added.
The FDA, Department of Health, and World Health Organization have all said that current evidence does not support the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment.
Last week, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered health and science agencies to hold a clinical trial for the antiparasitic drug in the Philippines.
The study is expected to start by the end of May, according to the Department of Science and Technology.
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So... the FDA makes the rules for hospitals in the Philippines?
That is pretty much what was going to be my comment.
I was wondering if they were now a territory of the US, or admitted as a State by Nancy and Chuck, and I missed the announcement.
“This FDA:
https://www.fda.gov.ph/“
What’s really nice about that site is it doesn’t suck all your memory and RAM like US Gov sites (video, multimedia, chat pops, streaming bits and pieces), just the facts.
It was kind of refreshing
why should anyone believe anything that the cdc, fauxi, and the scientific community says about a so called “deadly virus” when they refuse to speak up about the dangers of our feral government opening the border, inviting, and then distributing thousands of disease carrying invaders across our country during a so called “global pandemic”???...
Why the hell do the Phillipines need FDA approval for anything?
RE: Why the hell do the Phillipines need FDA approval for anything?
They have their FDA and we have our FDA. Same reason we need approval from our FDA for anything.
RE: So... the FDA makes the rules for hospitals in the Philippines
You think we’re the only country with an FDA?
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