Serbian chloroquine to fight COVID-19 began to arrive in the country's hospitals
Half a month after the start of the production of the first batch of the drug cholorquine at the Belgrade company Galenika, the medicine used in the treatment of coronavirus appeared in medical institutions in Serbia.
Serbian media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Today, the first batches of the drug chloroquine from the central warehouse of the Republican Health Insurance Fund were delivered to the Zemun Clinical Center in Belgrade, and will then be distributed to other hospitals treating COVID-19.
At the beginning of last month, the raw materials for the production of the drug arrived in Serbia, and literally two weeks later the Belgrade pharmaceutical company Galenika began its own production. For his part, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic greeted this is an undertaking.
“The state had to anticipate the situation when it came to purchasing the drug, and had to take care not to buy too much, since the peak of the disease may have passed,” commented Sanja Radojevic-Shkodrić, director of the Republican Health Insurance Fund, on the need to produce the drug in-house. – On the other hand, it must be prepared for the situation that has developed in Italy (large-scale spread of the coronavirus epidemic and deaths - ed.)
Chloroquine was previously used in the treatment of malaria, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and photodermatoses, but with the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, it began to be used in the fight against this new disease for humanity.
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