“I didn’t know if I was going to go home. And I had to learn to breathe again, ”says the second-rate NCO PNP Luis Alberto Donayre Valdez. Survivor COVID-19, this State Security agent says he felt he fell. “They saved my life. God is great, ”he says, as he enlists to return to service.
“We are like the chosen ones, I have never been in such a dark and sad situation”, affirms the second petty officer PNP Darvin Condezo Alania. He, in the middle of this pandemic, went out to help the elderly with limited resources until he also became infected by the virus.
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They don’t know each other but they have something in common: they both saved their lives with a treatment of ivermectina which today produces a special team of pharmaceutical chemists at the Central Police Hospital.
250 daily doses
For several weeks, these white-coated professionals did a quiet job of making the drug in their labs.
The ivermectina It was scarce and in the institution there were already 10,000 infected and 300 deaths from coronavirus.
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Thus, amidst the expansion of the virus, the three pharmaceutical chemists and five auxiliaries at the PNP Hospital achieved what nobody thought: to produce 250 doses of ivermectin for the police that were spread on the front line of battle.
This allowed to supply the pharmacies of the hospital centers PNP and treating patients in the initial stage, because in that period ivermectin is more effective, explains General Jorge Salazar Quiroz, director of Police Health.
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“The idea today is to reach three thousand daily doses and then make a package of 45 thousand to distribute them to all Police hospitals nationwide and also apply to the families of the troops and whoever the State has,” says the official .
Effective in initial stage
Given the great demand for this product, the pharmacy-biochemistry department of the PNP Central Hospital found it necessary to carry out an investigation to use the formula.
“We looked for the conditions for the preparation, the requirements were made and these are the results that today save the lives of our police brothers,” adds PNP commander José Espinoza.
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The officer explains that, according to the studies, ivermectin inhibits the coronavirus’s ability to replicate. The main characteristic of SARS-Cov-2 is its ability to reproduce. Once it gets installed in the cells, it produces on average 100,000 replicates of itself every 24 hours.
“Ivermectin breaks the possibility of multiplication, and therefore the human body regains strength to eliminate virus in its initial stage ”, details the expert.
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The largest PNP Emilia Ramírez states that, according to scientific evidence, the patients who have been applied this medicine showed a notable improvement 72 hours after receiving the treatment.
This is how eight geniuses achieved what in May seemed like a utopia: stopping the advance of the COVID-19 on the streets, in police stations and in hospitals. But beware, the war against the invisible enemy continues.
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