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Home Pakistan AMTI starts using chloroquine on trial basis for Covid-19 patients: Dr Umar

AMTI starts using chloroquine on trial basis for Covid-19 patients: Dr Umar

by News desk
April 12, 2020
in Pakistan

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Our Correspondent

Abbottabad

Ayub Medical Teaching Institution Abbottabad has started using of chloroquine on clinical trial basis while the institute has also become part of the global research for COVID-19 treatment, Dr. Umar Farooq, the Dean of (AMTI), confirmed to on phone here Saturday. ‘It would be game changer and we hope so as we have already started the medicine on trials basis for the treatment of COVID-19 patients currently admitted with us,’ Dr Umer Farooq, who is also conducting the research added.
He disclosed that the hospital has started the clinical trials for the treatment of the coronavirus using chloroquine, a medicine which was commonly used in malaria treatment.