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BRASILIA – The Minister of Health, Henrique Mandetta, covered the Governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB) and the infectologist David Uip who said Wednesday that he recommended to the minister the distribution of chloroquine in the public health network to treat cases of Covid-19. Mandetta said the decision on distribution to critically ill and critically ill patients was made by consensus at a meeting with other experts and said “no one owns the truth.”
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– Today, this medicine has no paternity. The governor does not need to want to politicize this issue. This subject is already indicated correctly. We need everyone to have maturity, vision, focus and discipline so that we can get through this moment, Mandetta said during a press conference.
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Mandetta said the government’s decision to give chloroquine to critically ill and critically ill patients was made not just based on Uip’s opinion, but based on the evaluation of other experts.
– We decided by consensus … I mean, it wasn’t even a consensus because there was a teacher who didn’t believe it. That he thought he had to study more. But who is analyzing this? The Federal Council of Medicine – said Mandetta.
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The minister also said that a recommendation to expand the use of chloroquine in patients on Covid-19 will not come from David Uip’s “head” or his own.
– (A recommendation on the use of chloroquine) It won’t be in Doctor Uip’s head, it won’t be in my head. There is no one who possesses the truth. There is no better state than another. Does not have. We are all equal – said the minister.
Mandetta said she asked CFM to comment on the matter before April 20. Currently, the recommendation of the Ministry of Health is that only critically ill and critically ill patients should be treated with chloroquine. On Tuesday, Mandetta said, however, that doctors have the autonomy to prescribe chloroquine at other stages of the disease, as long as they take responsibility and inform patients about the drug’s possible side effects, such as heart arrhythmias.
The minister also said that the massive use of chloroquine becomes even more complex with the circulation of several other respiratory viruses in the country, in addition to the new coronavirus.
– If you take it with H1N1, thinking it is a crown, it may have side effects from chloroquine, which has nothing to do with H1N1, he said.
He recalled that the H1N1 flu, in the 2009 pandemic, affected more pregnant women, men, under 40 years, causing rapid pneumonia and with high lethality. But with far less transmission than the new coronavirus, Mandetta emphasized.
The statements came hours after Mandetta met Bolsonaro at the Planalto Palace, in the first one-on-one meeting with the president since she publicly criticized him last week.
While the Minister of Health mentioned Uip and Doria, the Communication Secretary of the Presidency, Fabio Wajngarten, aired the toucan on Twitter, also without mentioning it by name: “there is a Governor who needs a ‘Office of the Truth'”.
