State Council, yes to the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of Covid – Health



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Section III of the Council of State accepted, as a precautionary measure, the appeal of a group of general practitioners and suspended the AIFA note of July 22 that prohibited off-label prescription (that is, for a use not foreseen in the prospect). hydroxychloroquine for the fight against Covid.

“The continuing uncertainty about the therapeutic efficacy of hydroxychloroquine, admitted by the AIFA itself to justify an additional evaluation in randomized clinical trials – says the ordinance – is not sufficient legal reason to justify the unreasonable suspension of its use in the national territory” .

legal and Italian treatment opportunities returned

“An adequate opportunity for treatment has been returned to the Italians, taking into account the tests of the territories. We are really satisfied.” The lawyer Erich Grimaldi, who promoted and supported the petition of a group of doctors against the suspension of the use of hydroxychloroquine in the Covid home care protocols, comments on today’s decision of the State Council.

“As of today, the prescription of the drug is allowed – Grimaldi continues – under the precise responsibility of the doctor and under his strict control, to patients with Covid in the initial phase of the disease. This means respecting the medical profession, exercised in science and conscience, as we have always supported. “

Since March, lawyer Grimaldi has compiled the experience of doctors from various Italian regions who had successfully used the drug. Among them, Professor Luigi Cavanna from Piacenza, Dr. Paola Varese from Ovada (Alessandr9a), Dr. Luigi Garavelli from Novara, Dr. Riccardo Szumski from Treviso and Dr. Andrea Mangiagalli from Milan.

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