By D N Singh
Sometimes it is feared that, the remedy should not be worse than the disease. Hence as regards the management of the Covid and the related clinical management through administration of drugs and tests, some experts in the field of health have their share of worries.
A team of about 30 experts have in a letter to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, have drawn his attention towards over use of drugs and so on with a warning about its adverse impact on the patients.
According to a report published in ThePrint, which has substantively quoted the contents of the letter addressed to the PM, with a request to desist from over-administration of medicines in the clinical management of Covid-19.
“Unwarranted medications, tests and hospitalizations” prescribed to patients and the letter further said that, the kits, cocktails, vitamin combinations and host of medicines were being prescribed to patients, which they labelled an “irrational” practice.
It is further said in the latter that, “the practice of unnecessary CT Scans and battery of laboratory tests for asymptomatic or mild Covid cases are also sharply criticized in the letter.
There, instead should be a “evidence-based response to the current wave of Covid-19 in India” the letter said.
“ While there continues to be much uncertainty amid the outbreak of this novel disease, there is now substantive quality scientific literature that gives unequivocal guidance on the clinical management of Covid-19”.
They have urged the PM to intervene and stop the use of medications and diagnostics that are inappropriate for the clinical management of it.
This coming from none other than so many medical experts it deserves a relook by the Centre.
