By Prior Beharry
THE Citizens Union of Trinidad and Tobago (CUTT) is willing to source and donate 10,000 Ivermectin pills to help in the fight against Covid-19 in T&T.
In a release on Saturday, it stated, “In light of the continuous rise in cases and deaths, the CUTT is willing to source and donate 10,000 Ivermectin pills if the Government would publicly undertake to use them to save lives.”
Executive Director of CUTT Phillip Edward Alexander told AZP News on Saturday, “Globally we have seen this drug working in Brazil, in India, in Japan.
“Ivermectin works.
“Why are we not using it here. If the Government refuses to take up our offer, we are asking them to allow us to source Ivermectin through our overseas chapters and get it to the citizens who want it.”
Speaking at a prime minister’s press conference on November 13, Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh said that private doctors were treating Covid-19 patients with the drug.
The Government has not approved this drug for Covid-19 treatment.
Deyalsingh said, “What the doctors are telling me is that patients are being treated by their private-sector doctors at home, with a combination of the following drugs: one, Ivermectin, two, antibiotics to treat a viral infection. There is a place for antibiotics if you have a secondary bacterial infection, coming out of a viral infection.”
He said, “These patients are being given antibiotics as first-line therapy for a viral infection together with Ivermectin, together with alternative medicine, together with home oxygen. What they reported to me yesterday (November 12) was that these patients are now hypoxic at home, they don’t have enough oxygen, for three to five days before calling the ambulance and before coming to the hospital system.”
