LAHORE: An injection given for arthritis has successfully been tested on coronavirus patients in Punjab.
This was claimed by Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid.
She said that there had been positive results from the use of arthritis injection on Covid-19 patients.
The provincial health minister said that the injection could be used twice in 24 hours. She added that 10 severe patients of coronavirus had recovered with the use of the injection usually given for arthritis.
The price for two injections is about Rs120,000, she said, adding that these injections are given to patients from the government expense at the hospitals.
Mayo Hospital Chief Executive Dr Asad Aslam said that several patients were saved from placing on ventilators with the use of the injection.
Meanwhile, Searle Company Limited, a Pakistani drug company has said that it would import remdesivir, which has shown effectiveness in treating the coronavirus patients, from Bangladesh.
Searle Company Limited and Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals have signed a marketing and licensing agreement.
The Bangladesh’s drug company has become the world’s first pharmaceutical firm to introduce remdesivir’s generic variant.
Searle Company Limited told the Pakistan Stock Exchange that the anti-viral drug would be imported in ready-to-use from Bangladesh to fulfill the urgent requirements in the country.
