NEW DELHI : A number of studies questioning the efficacy of the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of covid-19 patients notwithstanding, the demand for the drug has not gone down and India is getting requests for the despatch of the medicine, a person familiar with the development said Thursday.
India has so far cleared the despatch of the medicine to some 50 countries with more added to the list every day. Separately, Indian foreign ministry spokesman, Anurag Srivastava said that India had so far “gifted 5 million HCQ tablets to countries in the neighbourhood and the IOR (Indian Ocean Region), Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, Eurasia and WANA (West Asia, North America) regions." “We are also providing 1.32 million PCM