REMDESIVIR too pricey for Mexico. Looks like we’ll beat them price wise. Hoping for great results S/C.
https://www.google.com.mx/amp/s/www.razon.com...s-experto/
“Despite the fact that remdesivir, a drug recently endorsed in the United States for the treatment of patients with Covid-19, its costs are extremely high, since it is estimated to cost $ 93,500 or 2.29 million pesos, which is why in our country It would be very difficult to have this drug.
Today in Mexico there is none, and the one in stock is being used for clinical trials and the cost is very high, which would be one of the limitations for its application. It is necessary to analyze the viability of bringing it, to know its cost and how much benefit it gives me, since pure medicine costs more than hospitalization, ”Andreu Comas, virologist at the University of San Luis Potosí, explained to La Razón.
In a consultation with the company Medchem Express, which specializes in pharmaceutical costs, one milligram of this drug costs $ 220, but 10 milligrams cost $ 850. In other words, for a treatment of 1,100 milligrams, at $ 85 per milligram, the total cost would be $ 93,500, and at an exchange rate of 24.55 pesos per dollar, the total would be equivalent to two million 295,425 pesos.
For the experts consulted, this high cost of the drug is due to the fact that it is in the testing stage, although according to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), the cost will drop considerably when the drug begins to become popular, up to four One thousand 500 dollars or 110 thousand 475 pesos one thousand Mexican pesos.
Last April 16, the public reason that, according to a statement by the governor of Puebla, Miguel Barbosa, 60 thousand pesos are spent for each day of hospitalization of a person infected with Covid-19; budget that rises to 82 thousand pesos when intensive therapy is required for the infected.
Yesterday, the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, pointed out in a press conference that although the use of this drug was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it does not mean that it can be applied in a widespread, and cautioned that the scientific evidence on its usefulness is inconclusive.
This is not to say that they are approved for general use outside of the emergency condition. The very explicit technical and legal elements are established that it is only in cases of emergency, ”he explained.
The fact: On Friday, the FDA authorized the emergency use of the experimental drug, although this does not amount to its approval. Evidence lowers recovery time by 31%”
https://www.google.com.mx/amp/s/www.razon.com...s-experto/
“Despite the fact that remdesivir, a drug recently endorsed in the United States for the treatment of patients with Covid-19, its costs are extremely high, since it is estimated to cost $ 93,500 or 2.29 million pesos, which is why in our country It would be very difficult to have this drug.
Today in Mexico there is none, and the one in stock is being used for clinical trials and the cost is very high, which would be one of the limitations for its application. It is necessary to analyze the viability of bringing it, to know its cost and how much benefit it gives me, since pure medicine costs more than hospitalization, ”Andreu Comas, virologist at the University of San Luis Potosí, explained to La Razón.
In a consultation with the company Medchem Express, which specializes in pharmaceutical costs, one milligram of this drug costs $ 220, but 10 milligrams cost $ 850. In other words, for a treatment of 1,100 milligrams, at $ 85 per milligram, the total cost would be $ 93,500, and at an exchange rate of 24.55 pesos per dollar, the total would be equivalent to two million 295,425 pesos.
For the experts consulted, this high cost of the drug is due to the fact that it is in the testing stage, although according to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), the cost will drop considerably when the drug begins to become popular, up to four One thousand 500 dollars or 110 thousand 475 pesos one thousand Mexican pesos.
Last April 16, the public reason that, according to a statement by the governor of Puebla, Miguel Barbosa, 60 thousand pesos are spent for each day of hospitalization of a person infected with Covid-19; budget that rises to 82 thousand pesos when intensive therapy is required for the infected.
Yesterday, the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, pointed out in a press conference that although the use of this drug was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it does not mean that it can be applied in a widespread, and cautioned that the scientific evidence on its usefulness is inconclusive.
This is not to say that they are approved for general use outside of the emergency condition. The very explicit technical and legal elements are established that it is only in cases of emergency, ”he explained.
The fact: On Friday, the FDA authorized the emergency use of the experimental drug, although this does not amount to its approval. Evidence lowers recovery time by 31%”
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