GPO seeks raw materials from China to build up depleting stocks of antiviral drug

By The Nation

 

Dr Withoon Danwiboon, GPO managing director

 

The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has contacted China to procure antiviral drug chemicals to make Favipiravir in order to treat Covid-19 patients in the country.

 

 

The GPO expects the raw materials to be delivered next week.

 

Dr Withoon Danwiboon, GPO managing director, said on Saturday (April 18) that currently, Thailand has only 200,000 tablets of Favipiravir, adding they need at least 1 million tablets to cope with the current situation.

 

“Therefore, GPO contacted China to procure antiviral drug chemicals to make Favipiravir in order to treat patients suffering from the Covid-19 virus in the country,” he said. “We expect the antiviral drug substances to be delivered next week.”

 

He said that GPO must test the production of drugs in three areas, namely stability, disintegration, and absorption.

 

“If the test results show that this set of drugs is effective, it will be sent to the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Medical Sciences to check the quality of the drug,” he said. “If it passes the standard, we will make the drug immediately.”

 

He added that it would take up to one year before the antiviral drug production starts.

 

“It is not considered too slow because the Covid-19 situation would prolong,” he added. “During this time, the GPO is trying to import Favipiravir from overseas to make sure that it will be sufficient for treating patients in Thailand.”

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30386317

 

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1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

He added that it would take up to one year before the antiviral drug production starts.

 

“It is not considered too slow because the Covid-19 situation would prolong,”

A year to produce!

And the situation will prolong till then!

How ironic that you now beg China for a drug against a virus that originated in China in the first place.

 

 

where is the clinical evidence that this drug is an effective treatment 

1 hour ago, smedly said:

where is the clinical evidence that this drug is an effective treatment 

https://scholar.google.co.th/scholar?q=favipiravir+covid&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

I wonder why Faipivarar is not being mentioned at all in Europe or the US.  Does Thailand know something they don't?   Perhaps farangs are only interested in drugs produced by farang companies. The talk there has only been about Hydroxychloroquine until that one was debunked and now about Remdesivir following the deliberate lead about a preliminary trial by a stock ramper.

"If the test results show that this set of drugs is effective, it will be sent to the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Medical Sciences to check the quality of the drug"

 

So they buy the ingredients before they even know that the drug is effective. That doesn't sound like the proper approach to me.

 

2 hours ago, Dogmatix said:

I wonder why Faipivarar is not being mentioned at all in Europe or the US.  Does Thailand know something they don't?   Perhaps farangs are only interested in drugs produced by farang companies. The talk there has only been about Hydroxychloroquine until that one was debunked and now about Remdesivir following the deliberate lead about a preliminary trial by a stock ramper.

Remdesivir was re-patented by communist china into various new drugs to fight wuhan virus, Faipivarar, sounds like one of those, Remdesivir was sent to China by the US under ownership of Gilead, to help with treating people, just communist china as the low life scam artists they are, took that as a way to make money,  we will never know where Faipivarar was taken from, but as intelectual property rights go, china doesnt give a damn

Praise the idol CCP