NEWS UPDATE: The Philippine Pharmacists Association, Inc. (PPhA) "strongly opposes the irrational dispensing" of experimental drug ivermectin after two lawmakers – both non-practicing medical professionals – led a mass distribution of the drug in Quezon City.
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PPhA: Medicines are developed, manufactured, prescribed, compounded, and dispensed based on sound, scientific, and evidence-based professional judgement.
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The group reiterates the need for a "valid prescription prior to compounding and/or dispensing of the medicine."
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Hours after the ivermectin distribution, photos of supposedly medical prescriptions of the drug surfaced on social media. The prescriptions, however, were only written in a clean sheet of paper – no name of the physician who prescribed the drug, no license number.
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The group reiterates the need for a "valid prescription prior to compounding and/or dispensing of the medicine." @rapplerdotcom
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The pharmacists group urges the DOH and the FDA to act on the "irrational dispensing" and "illegal compounding" of ivermectin "swiftly and decisively."