Posted on 09/24/2021 1:52:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-COVID-19 National Task Force Joint Monitoring Group dropped the usage of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) drugs from revised clinical guidelines for the management of adult COVID-19 patients.
However, the new guidelines mention the use of Remdesivir and Tocilizumab in specific circumstances.
Among the key guidelines which are routinely stressed include--wearing masks, physical distancing and hand hygiene.
Suggesting a moderate use of other drugs like Remedesivir, the guideline advises the former to be used only in select moderate or severe Covid-19 patients on supplemental oxygen within 10 days of onset of symptom.
For the use of Tocilizumab, the guideline said that to use the medicine only for severe Covid-19 patients, preferably within 24 to 48 hours of the onset of severe disease or ICU admission.
It suggested that those with mild infection must maintain physical distancing, indoor mask use, strict hand hygiene.
It further said that symptomatic patients may take antipyretic, antitussive and multivitamins and asked to seek immediate medical attention if they experience difficulty in breathing or high-grade fever or severe cough, particularly if lasting for more than five.
People with moderate disease with SpO2 level 92-96 per cent (88-92 per cent in patients with Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) may take Methylprednisolone injection and Anticoagulation medicine.
They should work on breathing, Hemodynamic instability and change in oxygen requirement.
As per the guidelines, for the severe infection, the guideline suggests using NIV (Helmet or face mask interface depending on availability) in patients with increasing oxygen requirement, if work of breathing is low.
"Consider the use of HFNC in patients with increasing oxygen requirement, Intubation should be prioritized in patients with high work of breathing /if NIV is not tolerated and Use conventional ARDSnet protocol for ventilatory management," it said.
The guidelines also said to take Methylprednisolone injection of 1 to 2 mg divide into two doses usually for a duration of 5 to 10 days.
It informed that the severe disease or mortality risk is higher in people above age 60, people with Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, Coronary artery disease (CAD), Diabetes mellitus, Chronic lung/kidney/liver disease, Cerebrovascular disease, Obesity and other immunocompromised states. (ANI)
Follow the Chinese $$$$$.
Big News Network? In India?
Why would doctors not use HCQ and Ivermectin plus Zinc?
Remdesivir has been proven to be ineffective.
Why would doctors recommend this change? Follow the money.
Ivermectin does work and has almost no side effects. HCQ with Zinc also helped treat the disease, but was not as effective as Ivermectin.
Deep State, India Division.
Former head of Indian Council of Medical Research is avoiding arrest but denies wrongdoing. (2013)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.12554
The arrests of several high-profile current and former officials of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on corruption charges have sent shockwaves through the Indian medical establishment.
“It is extremely shocking that so many senior officials of the ICMR are in jail”, says Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, who is on the board of governors of the Medical Council of India. “Such a thing has never happened in the history of India before and is absolutely unprecedented,” he added, leaving scientists and policy makers in shock.
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Can India’s COVID-19 emergency be fixed without politics?
Kunal Saha
Published:June 26, 2021
Although the 2021 surge of COVID-19 infection and death in India was aptly analysed by the Editors,1 the two-pronged strategy strategy suggested to fix this problem overlooked a crucial aspect: the widespread corruption that has plagued the Indian health-care system for a long time.2 From the beginning of the pandemic, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), an apex body responsible for the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, approached the pandemic with a method of non-transparency, and some of the therapies it promoted appeared to be influenced more by political reasons than scientific evidence.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01227-7/fulltext
Medical Council of India is corrupt, says health minister
BMJ 2014; 349 doi:
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g4762
(Published 22 July 2014)
India’s health minister, Harsh Vardhan, has described the Indian drug regulator, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), as a “snake pit of vested interests,” and he labelled the Medical Council of India (MCI) a corrupt organisation.
He was responding to questions from the Indian Express after The BMJ published an article by David Berger, a general medicine practitioner who had worked in northern India. In the article Berger chronicled his experiences of working in a corrupt system and said that such corruption was eroding the trust between doctors and patients.1
Berger highlighted the practice of referral payments, in which diagnostic centres pay doctors a commission for each patient referred …
I’ve heard several docs state that Remdesivir is used at the last stages of the COVID when death is fairly certain.
Dark days for medical profession in India
By Roger Collier
You know a profession is corrupt when its practitioners surprise the public more when they refuse bribes than when they accept them. Unfortunately, such is the case with the medical profession in India, says Dr. Subrata Chattopadhyay, a former Erasmus Mundas Master of Bioethics Fellow at Italy’s Università degli Studi di Padova.
“Corruption is endemic,” says Chattopadhyay, who now teaches at an Indian medical college. “If a doctor is corrupt, it doesn’t excite anybody.”
Whether or not it elicited excitement, the recent arrest of Dr. Ketan Desai, a prominent and powerful Indian physician, has certainly elicited change — the most notable being the dissolution of the Medical Council of India (MCI)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900324/
Deep State, India Division.
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It is like I have said, every national state government on the planet, with the exception of Sweden, seems to be trying to kill its citizens. Fortunately, sanity still reigns in some of the Indian states where Ivermectin and other nutrient supplements are being handed out in treatment packets and the incident of Covid is way down.
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Modi is in the US...
Wonder if the timing of the Ivermectin news is a coinkydink.
BTW, I can’t find any mention of the Ivermectin being dropped in the Indian enemedia.
Active COVID-19 cases in country lowest in 188 days
Be sure to read the last two paragraphs.
So India switched over to our basic protocol.
I’m guess all the Twitter claims of Ivermectin saving India were just more Twitter claims.
Exactly. The WHO puppets.
Not the media, but here it is at ICMR’s page:
https://www.icmr.gov.in/ctechdocad.html
23/09/2021* Considerations for Exclusion of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine from the “Clinical Guidance for Management of Adult COVID-19 Patients”
https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/Considerations_for_Exclusion_of_IVM_and_HCQ.pdf
Thanks for the link!
Interesting that the enemedia is refusing to report this.
Any idea what the “special circumstances” for off-label use are?
ICMR drops Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine drugs from Covid treatment
Wow, looks like they’re not going to treat new cases unless and until they progress to moderate and/or severe.
Okaaaay....
And I can't find out WTH a "climax tial setting" is.
And check out the deets on the so-called study that the Indian government is pinning this all on.
Wowza.
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