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With the disruption in corporate hospitals, underpaid medical professionals and neighbourhood nursing homes are stepping into the breach
On gaming the system using compassionate grounds to get access to rare Covid treatments
Though not sold in India, the country can avail of the antiviral drug via WHO’s ‘Solidarity’ programme
Also gets ICMR nod for plasma trial, tests to check community spread, lung infections
Awaiting approval from ICMR; may also get Cuban wonder drug Interferon
This isn't the time to promote belief over evidence, says former health secretary Sujatha Rao
In the absence of new drugs and a vaccine, a race is underway to rediscover old drugs and repurpose them