Ved Mundada

Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical, India

Publications

  • Review Article   
    Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for the Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19: A Fiction, Hope or Hype
    Author(s): Ved Mundada and Abhishek Ingole*

    Background: Curative part is one of the most important part of the COVID-19 containment strategy and various drugs are bring repurpose to treat the COVID-19 symptoms as there is no already available standard course of treatment due to novelty of the disease. Summary: HCQ and CQ have showed their efficacy as antimalarial drugs both in prophylactic role and during treatment of the malaria. The initial studies which showed the successful lowering of viral load and lung injury along with reduced hospital say prompted health care professional all across the globe to widely administer the drugs in almost all patient. But soon, health acre fraternity realized that the drug is not suitable for all section of patient and is creating side effects which are life threatening in nature. In many cases the drugs were found to be effective in inhibiting the virus. Such drug ha.. Read More»

    Abstract HTML PDF