Dr Gagandeep Kang also asked the doctors to practice better medicine. (file)
New Delhi:
India’s top virologist, Dr Gagandeep Kang has called the prescription of monoclonal antibody therapy by doctors in private hospitals of the country to treat Omicron type of COVID-19 patients “unethical, unethical and unscientific” and called the medical fraternity “a better medicine than this”. practice”.
Notably, monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID is excluded in the Revised National COVID Task Force Remedies.
In a series of tweets, Dr Kang said that he received a call from a 90-year-old diabetic patient from Chennai, who told him that he had been advised hospitalization for antibody treatment as he had been in contact with someone who who did the test. Positive for SARS-CoV2.
Kang tweeted, “A call from a 90 year old diabetic uncle in Chennai who said he has advised hospitalization and antibody treatment because he was in contact with someone who tested positive for SARS-CoV2 did.”
Why not? It is immoral, immoral and unscientific. Surely, as doctors, we can teach and practice medicine better than this. And as patients, please ask what each drug is expected to do and the evidence to support it. 6/6
— G Kang (@GKangInd) 23 January 2022
“We know that 90 percent or more of infections are currently omicron in Indian cities. We know that monoclonal antibody products licensed in India do not neutralize omicron. Yet doctors in private hospitals administer monoclonal antibody therapy (and admission). writing,” he added. in his tweet.
She further explained that there is little data in India, so we don’t know whether the percentage of the elderly who are vaccinated with Omicron will go up.
“Please remember that even among clinically sensitive people, most contacts will be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and recover. A small number develop severe disease (in India, we have very little data so we don’t know that 5% or 20% of vaccinated elderly are Omicron will progress),” she tweeted.
“In any case, those who got better would do all right—but after giving them antibodies, doctors would ask for their treatment and the hospital would laugh at the bank. Argument I hear well—that is, doctors (thankfully infectious) Not a pathologist) is that it’s only a million and my patient can buy it, so why not?” Dr Kang said in a tweet.
Dr Kang said providing antibody treatment is unethical, unethical and unscientific and called on doctors to practice better medicine.
“Why not? It’s immoral, unethical, and unscientific. Surely, as doctors, we can teach and practice medicine better than this. And as patients, please ask what each drug is expected to do.” and evidence to support it,” Dr. Kang said.
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