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Pinoy Nurse Amongst Drug Recipients Test COVID-19
Ghio Ong (The Philippine Star) – May 1, 2020 – 12:00 a.m.
MANILA, Philippines – A California-based Philippine nurse who once tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was among patients worldwide who received medications that are currently being tested for efficacy. to treat the dreaded disease.
The medication remdesivir is part of a cocktail of medications used to stop the infection and is now being tested against COVID-19.
While his entire family of three, including his wife and five-year-old son, tested positive for COVID-19, Marcial Reyes had the worst symptoms.
He remained in the hospital for nearly a month, on 11 days of life support or on a ventilator, he told The Chiefs on Cignal’s One News channel last Wednesday.
She had complications from COVID-19 such as pneumonia, so her doctors “had to put me in a chemically induced coma to get my lungs to rest what they need,” he said.
While unconscious, he was injected with various medications such as vitamin C, a malaria medication that he did not name and remdesivir, all “specifically to combat COVID-19”.
Malaria drugs and remdesivir, an antiviral drug used to treat diseases caused by the Ebola virus and other forms of viruses in the past, are undergoing clinical trials to see if they could also treat COVID-19.
The Department of Health (DOH) previously announced that the Philippines would join a “solidarity trial” along with a hundred other countries to test the ability of various drugs, including remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, anti-malaria drugs, and drugs used to counteract the virus. human immunodeficiency (HIV) – to cure COVID-19.
Reyes’ doctor told him he was among the 5,000 people worldwide at the time who took remdesivir as a test drug, he told The Chiefs.
He has been released from the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and was released from the hospital after noting that he had no fever in the past three days. He currently awaits further advice from his doctor after taking another COVID-19 test, he noted.
Close to death
Reyes described his near-death experience while in a coma.
“Eleven days I was intubated and I had three vivid memories of what happened,” he shared.
One of the near-death visions he thought he had seen was that of his parents and brother, all deceased, who apparently invited him to join them. “I told them it would be fine if they let me join, but I thought about leaving my wife and my five-year-old son.”
“I was sad about the idea of leaving them, but I’m not afraid,” he added.
Another vision that made him think he was about to die was when he saw himself floating away from his body.
In addition, she recalled having a memory of her whole life, from her childhood to being involved in political work when she was still in the country, until her change to the nursing profession.
Now that he’s recovering, he’s “eager to get back to work because I want to help patients and my colleagues who are now too exhausted.”
“Philippine nurses are observed around the world … that kind of respect gives me the courage to recover and go back to work,” added Reyes.
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