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Coronavirus: Doctors urged to stop prescribing anti-malarial drug to family members

Worldwide interest in hydroxychloroquine is leading to a run on supply in Australia, says the Pharmaceutical Society
Jocelyn Wright
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23 March 2020
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Professor Nick Zwar
Professor Nick Zwar.

Doctors and dentists are being urged against ‘unprecedented’ prescribing of the rarely used antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to their families for COVID-19 as concern mounts that supplies could run dry.

Pharmacists are being told by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia to refuse to dispense the drug outside of its approved indications for malaria and rheumatoid conditions.

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