The Punjab government has allocated “much needed” 460 vials of Tucilizumab injection for use on 115 Covid-19 patients in intensive care units for the purpose of treatment as well as an “investigational study”.

The drug will be administered to the patients at the 15 teaching hospitals in Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi. These districts have been marked in red zone for reporting the highest number of virus cases during the pandemic of the Covid-19.

It will be the first phase of trial on maximum number of patients in advance stage of the disease after they tested positive for the virus and shifted to the hospitals for critical care. The medics will seek consent of the families, attendants or patients before administering the drug.

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