Government's new Covid prescription drops many ‘common’ drugs

The central health ministry has issued an evidence-based treatment plan for Covid-19 patients, dropping many medicines that had become household names during the course of the pandemic. The guidelines only mention four medicines as necessary for severe Covid patients: oxygen, steroids, tocilizumab (not all but based on certain blood parameters) and anti-coagulants for patients with comorbidities like diabetes, hypertension, etc.

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