Monday, 22 Jun 2020 06:10 PM MYTHealth director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the ministry has stopped administering malaria medication hydroxychloroquine on Covid-19 patients, seeing that it has no effect on those infected with the pandemic. — Picture by Choo Choy May
“We used it because it has anti-inflammatory properties for the beginning stages of Covid-19. But when we collect the data, after around 500 cases, we found that there was no positive effect of the medication. At the early stages of the pandemic, the ministry as well as the World Health Organisation were still experimenting on methods to treat the disease.
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