Available treatments of COVID-19 in Pakistan
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the medical community into disarray.
It’s just not an increase of new cases, high mortality rates and lack of
personnel protective equipment’s, but without any curative or preventive
medicine, doctors are left treating patients with series of trail and
errors. According to world Health Organization (WHO) world’s doctors are
trying to make vaccines and trails of different drugs and their cocktail
against Covid-19 but still there is no define treatment available (Waris
et al., 2020).
Similarly, Pakistani doctors have used different approaches of
treatments against Covid-19. A national webinar, Management of Severe
COVID Patients, which was hosted by the Indus Hospital, demonstrated how
the doctors were collaborating across hospitals, cities and provinces to
pool their clinical resources. In this they decided that there is no
medicine for mild patients except supportive care. They had also
approved some treatments for severe Covid-19 patients (Ahmed, 2020)
summarized in table 2 and 3: