Monday, March 23, 2020

Covid-19: A Cocktail of HIV, Malarial and Swine Flu Medicines Cures 3 in India

> ... “The team of doctors under the leadership of Dr Sudhir Bhandari, Principal of SMS Medical College held consultations with the ICMR and tried a combination medicines given for malaria, swine flu (Tamiflu) along with drugs for HIV and it worked well. All three persons including the Italians were cured this way,” said Rohit Kumar Singh, additional chief secretary, health of Rajasthan government.

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> ... “After much thought, we decided to work on the antiretroviral therapy after getting approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research in Delhi. Within five-six days using the combination of medicines, we first cured the Italian tourist, who is 69 and then his wife who is 70. The magic medicine worked in the third case when we cured the eighty-five-year-old person of Jaipur who had contracted the disease in Dubai” said Dr Sudhir Bhandari.

> “But to begin with, the patients were given medicines that are given to the swine flu patients and thereafter drugs given to HIV patients were given. Luckily the cocktail worked wonders and the doctors saw sudden improvement in the health of the patients.” Said Rohit K Singh.

> The three persons who tested positive were administered a combination of 200mg Lopinavir and 50 mg of Ritonavir twice a day besides Oseltamivir and Chloroquine that are given to the swine flu and malaria patients.

> However, the doctors at the SMS Hospital warned that this was only an emergency treatment and the HIV medicines were used only as an emergency measure that could help in regaining normalcy.

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