\nPETALING JAYA: The health ministry has withdrawn a criminal case against a doctor for possessing and dispensing ivermectin.<\/p>\n
Health ministry officials had seized the antiparasitic drug found in Dr Che Amir Farid Che Isahak\u2019s clinic, arguing that it was not a registered product. (Reuters pic)
\nPETALING JAYA: The health ministry has withdrawn a criminal case against a doctor for possessing and dispensing ivermectin.<\/p>\n
Dr Che Amir Farid Che Isahak said the ministry\u2019s decision to drop the case yesterday followed a ruling made by the Federal Court four months ago on a related matter.<\/p>\n
In March, the apex court unanimously decided to uphold doctors\u2019 right to give patients ivermectin.<\/p>\n
Health ministry officials had raided Che Amir\u2019s clinic in Ampang in 2021 during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The raid followed reports that two patients, unconnected to Che Amir, had self-prescribed ivermectin and allegedly suffered acute poisoning and breathing difficulties.<\/p>\n
Officials seized the antiparasitic drug found in the clinic, arguing that it was not a registered product. They also claimed that the doctor was not legally permitted to sell or dispense the drug.<\/p>\n
Che Amir was subsequently charged in the magistrates\u2019 court with selling and dispensing the drug.<\/p>\n
When contacted, Che Amir said although the case resulted from the use of ivermectin for Covid-19 patients, the court\u2019s decision allows doctors who are proponents of the drug to use it for the prevention or treatment of any other types of diseases or conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we can now safely prescribe and dispense ivermectin without fear of being raided anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said more diseases had been found to be amenable to treatment with ivermectin, including cancer.<\/p>\n
However, he said while there had been many preclinical studies, no clinical study had been conducted.<\/p>\n
\u201cIvermectin is emerging as a treatment for many types of cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor now there are only case reports and testimonies on the treatment of cancer with ivermectin. I hope that clinical trials will be conducted soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health ministry officials had seized the antiparasitic drug found in Dr Che Amir Farid Che Isahak\u2019s clinic, arguing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[2208,1117,112560,104788,105,99601,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-court-case","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-dr-che-amir-farid-che-isahak","11":"tag-federal-court","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-ivermectin","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}