The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the initial clinical trial results from the United Kingdom (UK) that show dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, can be lifesaving for patients who are critically ill with COVID-19. For patients on ventilators, the treatment was shown to reduce mortality by about one third, and for patients requiring only oxygen, mortality was cut by about one fifth, according to preliminary findings shared with WHO.

The benefit was only seen in patients seriously ill with COVID-19, and was not observed in patients with milder disease.

“This is the first treatment to be shown to reduce mortality in patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen or ventilator support,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “This is great news and I congratulate the Government of the UK, the University of Oxford, and the many hospitals and patients in the UK who have contributed to this lifesaving scientific breakthrough.”

Dexamethasone is a steroid that has been used since the 1960s to reduce inflammation in a range of conditions, including inflammatory disorders and certain cancers. It has been listed on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines since 1977 in multiple formulations, and is currently off-patent and affordably available in most countries.

The researchers shared initial insights about the results of the trial with WHO, and we are looking forward to the full data analysis in the coming days. WHO will coordinate a meta-analysis to increase our overall understanding of this intervention. WHO clinical guidance will be updated to reflect how and when the drug should be used in COVID-19.

Today’s news builds off the WHO Research & Development Blueprint meeting, which took place in Geneva in mid-February to accelerate health technologies for COVID-19, where further research into the use of steroids was highlighted as a priority. The findings reinforce the importance of large randomized control trials that produce actionable evidence. WHO will continue to work together with all partners to further develop lifesaving therapeutics and vaccines to tackle COVID-19 including under the umbrella of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator.

Source :https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/16-06-2020-who-welcomes-preliminary-results-about-dexamethasone-use-in-treating-critically-ill-covid-19-patients

Watch out for fake drugs tho. Loads of Fake dexamethasone will surely hit the market with this development...

Make them no welcome am before na

Alhamdulillah. Thanks to God Almighty who guide them.

This drug is the legendary mawu mawu o.

Onitcha people are you there??

The generic names of Dexamethasone in Nigeria are.
Dexacortin.
Xasten.

Because it came from UK. The Madagascar's cure they branded a herbal tonic. I am inclined to believe this whole thing get as e bi

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China really has a deal with WHO. For the fact that the drug is a Chinese product, WHO will certainly approve it. The conspiracy theory is becoming real.

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Good one. Congratulations to UK on this one. Nigerian universities and hospitals how market?

Thank God for that. And I guess its affordable for the poor masses too

Welcome development.

Don't forget still manufactured in China o.

good...because its from u.k...its now endorsed bt W .H.O...they have thier reasons sha and i pray this is the main cure that we all havs been waiting for because this high increase of cases dis days is no joke... and the main joke that we were all locked down with fewer cases but now that the cases are increasing each day, people are moving and living asif nothing is happening...
doing yesterday media briefing i heard the ptf boss saying Nigeria would not accpet the use of this drugs, mayb its strategy scare off fakes dt may be produced in the markets and to avoid self medication because Nigeria dt i kno would surely use it especially now that W.H.O their god av endorsed it...

Okay then..

Hope we don't see lots of the fake from greedy fellows who care about just making money

Some group of persons in lagos and aba right now...

Hustle don set....carbon copy/mass production on the beats..

For your information.. have read an article over 2month ago, about some health expert recommending these drugs dexamethasone and tynol to W.H.O, they even advice the organization to fast-track the use of these drugs to reduce death rate (because those expert have carried out their research deligently and carefully). Now from 2month till now do you know how many lives would have been saved if w.h.o truly fast-track the process...

I don't know why toying with people's lives is comfortable with these people...
When there's a pandemic like this taking lives at high rate.. every ideas and suggestions from expert should be given ultimate attention even though it might not be useful, sluggishness and reluctancy shouldn't have room.. Live is precious

Adrenal crisis loading....

Okay

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Aba boys where una they

NaialandDoctor:
The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the initial clinical trial results from the United Kingdom (UK) that show dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, can be lifesaving for patients who are critically ill with COVID-19.
For patients on ventilators, the treatment was shown to reduce mortality by about one third, and for patients requiring only oxygen, mortality was cut by about one fifth, according to preliminary findings shared with WHO.

need asap

nurex01:
Don't forget still manufactured in China o.

The majority of the ones used in Nigeria are made in Ghana

They must welcome it hence, it weaken the immune system making an individual more vulnerable to the virus.
Sh*t.