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Raids yield haul of illegal antivirals
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 05/08/2022
» The Ministry of Public Health warned the public not to purchase antiviral drugs without a prescription after its staff joined police to raid houses in Bangkok. They seized 80,000 illegally imported tablets worth about 10 million baht being sold online.
GPO denies any drug-stock crisis
News, Post Reporters, Published on 16/07/2022
» The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) has dismissed claims by a group of doctors that a shortage of antiviral medications for Covid-19 is imminent due to low stocks, saying it is supplying more of the drugs to hospitals nationwide.
Managing Covid drugs
Oped, Editorial, Published on 01/04/2022
» Record Covid cases and ongoing reports of sluggish management of Covid medicine stock might derail the government's ambitious plans to list Covid-19 as endemic on July 1.
Favipiravir in good supply, ministry says
News, Post Reporters, Published on 30/03/2022
» The Public Health Ministry said on Tuesday there are sufficient favipiravir pills in stock and it will procure more anti-viral tablets ahead of the Songkran festival next month, after the Rural Doctor Society (RDS) complained about a shortage of anti-Covid drugs.
Elderly patients to get molnupiravir first
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/03/2022
» Two million capsules of molnupiravir, the first oral medicine against Covid-19, arrived in the country on Friday for use as a prescribed medicine for high-risk patient groups, according to the Department of Medical Services.
Pandemic progress
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 29/11/2021
» When the Covid-19 crisis unfolded two years ago, researchers scrambled to uncover the source of and cure for the killer virus. At the time, there were no medicines. Soon after, vaccine development kicked off, giving hope of protection to us all.
RDS completes city mass testing mission
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/08/2021
» The Rural Doctors Society (RDS) has completed its mission to help conduct Covid-19 mass testing on at least 50,000 people in 26 locations across Bangkok, Samut Prakan and Nakhon Pathom, with 10,357 people testing positive over the five-day period.
GPO sets 143m favipiravir goal
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/08/2021
» The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has set a target to source 143 million antiviral drug favipiravir tablets this month and next month in order to stave off a possible shortage in the face of the intensifying Covid-19 crisis.
'More patients to be given Favipiravir'
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/08/2021
» The Public Health Ministry has decided to administer Favipiravir to more groups of Covid-19 patients and is planning to stockpile 420 million tablets of the antiviral drug.
Act now on favipiravir
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/08/2021
» Access to medicine can make a life-and-death difference amid the Covid-19 emergency. The government cannot afford to fail in the crucial mission of securing enough of the antiviral medication favipiravir to cover the rapid increase of patients.