Kuala Lumpur: President of the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Association, Amrahi Buang, says “India and Indonesia, for example, have withdrawn the use of Ivermectin in treating COVID-19.”
While people are buying the drug on the black market, he says it is not a replacement for the vaccines, Bernama reports.
But he says this controversy could be solved through the Cochrane Review report published on July 28, 2021.
The medical study concluded that Ivermectin was not effective in preventing and treating COVID-19 disease.
“This drug does not replace vaccines. Although there are countries that use Ivermectin for humans, it is not necessarily effective,” he says.
On the other hand, there have been side effects in the use of the much-debated drug.
“A patient has recovered from COVID and wants to take Ivermectin, now his liver function is problematic. Yellow-jaundice” writes Putrajaya Hospital Medical Consultant and Nephrologist, Dr Rafidah Abdullah in a Twitter post.
