The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health on February 17 issued the list of three Covid-19 treatment drugs containing the active ingredient Molnupiravir, which had been granted certificates of registration for conditional circulation.
Despite being considered to have many development opportunities, the pharmaceutical industry faces many challenges when raw materials depend on foreign sources.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday received a donation of 200,000 Molnupiravir antiviral pills from FPT Long Chau Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company to treat the poor infected with Covid-19 for treatment.
Because patients have experienced great difficulty in accessing the purchase of Covid-19 oral pill Molnupiravir even though this drug has been produced domestically and circulated on the market, the Ministry of Health has recently proposed more open regulations to help Covid-19 patients soon get the pill.
Following newspaper’s articles that drug stores will sell Molnupiravir to people who declare to be positive for Covid-19, Chief of Office of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai said, inspectors from the Department of Health will check on the sale of antiretroviral drug Molnupiravir and issue warning on violators.
The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health yesterday officially announced the long-awaited price for three Covid-19 domestically-produced Molnupiravir drug.
People shouldn’t buy and take the drug Molnupiravir with unknown origin on their own but only buy drugs that have been licensed by the Ministry of Health to ensure the quality and effectiveness of treatment.
The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health on February 17 granted permission for circulation of three drugs containing Molnupiravir manufactured in Vietnam for the treatment of Covid-19.
Many hospitals and clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have lately struggled to obtain sufficient medicines and medical equipment. There has been a serious lack of medical supply, and it is so challenging to stock more, while patients are in dying need of necessary medicine for their treatments or their diseases could worsen.
Following the information that Molnupiravir, an anti-viral drug developed by US companies Merck and Ridgeback, has been kept out of the treatment protocol recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Ministry of Health has provided feedback on the issue.
The Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City said that in order to reduce administrative procedures, the Department will issue isolation clearance certificate which is issued for Covid-19 patients who have successfully completed their isolation period, via mail.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has just sent an official letter to propose the Administration of Science Technology and Training under the Ministry of Health to provide the city with 100,000 more Molnupiravir doses for Covid-19 patient treatment.
Many major pharmacy chains in Vietnam yesterday began to sell Covid-19 pills containing agent Molnupiravir for F0 cases with a prescription. However, many people still could not buy the medicine because they do not bring along a required F0 certificate by healthcare units.
The Sai Gon Giai Phong (SGGP) Newspaper has received readers’ feedback about the care and treatment for Covid-19 provided by the local authorities and medical facilities.
A leader of the Department of Health in Ho Chi Minh City hoped that drugs to treat Covid-19 will no longer be scarce in the near future so that the health sector will propose to allow the sale of drugs to treat Covid-19 on a mass basis. At that time, people can go to pharmacies to buy and use them like other common flu medicines.
Authorities in 21 districts and Thu Duc city have reported that they are managing 213,773 people in the high-risk group including people over 65 years old and people with pre-existing medical conditions; moreover, some 102,153 people have been undergoing screening tests; thereby, roughly 1,253 people have detected to contract Covid-19.
Ho Chi Minh City police have coordinated with the HCMC Department of Information and Communications to take action against those spreading fake news on social media and sharing false information to break the law, said Senior Colonel Le Manh Ha, Deputy Head of the Advisory Department.
Deputy Head of the HCMC Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control and Economic Recovery, Pham Duc Hai said that Covid-19 cases among children have spiked dramatically. The number of new infections from February 14-21 was three times higher than the figure recorded from February 7- 13.
According to Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long, the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City start using the experimental antiviral drug Molnupiravir to treat Covid-19 patients with mild-symptom from August 27.
