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2593 vials of Remdesivir arrived in Bulgaria. The drug is used to treat patients with COVID-19 in moderate and severe condition, the Ministry of Health said, quoted by BGNES.
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At 16:30 the regional health inspections in Sofia-city, Sofia district, Blagoevgrad, Pernik and Kyustendil will receive the medicine.
Later today, quantities of the drug will reach the remaining 23 RHIs in the country.
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WHO has issued a conditional recommendation against the use of remdesivir in hospitalized patients, regardless of disease severity, as there is currently no evidence that remdesivir improves survival and other outcomes in these patients.
"You can see that there is a lasting trend of increasing the number of cured people on a daily basis in the country," said Minister of Health Prof.
There is an acute shortage of Remdesivir in several Plovdiv hospitals.
It began life as an antiviral drug for Hepatitis C and Ebola and was also tested for SARS and MERS, but it was only when the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world that remdesivir truly became a household name.
The government is allocating BGN 5 million to stock up on the drug Remdesivir.
Yesterday, the European Commission has signed a contract with the pharmaceutical company Gilead to secure treatment doses of Veklury, the brand name for Remdesivir.
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