MANILA, Philippines — Another hospital in the country has been granted a compassionate use permit (CSP) to use human-grade ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients, bringing to six the number of hospitals given permit by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
FDA director general Eric Domingo declined to release the names of the hospitals with CSPs since the agency “doesn’t want to violate the privacy of the patients who are there in the hospitals.”
“Six hospitals na yata ang may CSP for ivermectin. They are private hospitals and not only in Metro Manila. Some are in the provinces din… The hospitals can freely identify themselves. We’re not stopping them,” he said in a Kapiha…
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