"Let's not waste any more time! »A petition launched by the former Minister of Health Philippe Douste-Blazy, asking to urgently soften the prescription possibilities of hydroxychloroquine, a treatment whose use against the coronavirus causes a debate, has exceeded 80,000 signatures Saturday early afternoon.
Called “#NePerdonsPlusDeTemps”, the petition launched on the Change.org platform asked the “Prime Minister and his Minister of Health (…) to make available immediately in all hospital pharmacies of hydroxychloroquine or, failing that, to chloroquine ”.
"We call on the State to place orders or reservations"
According to the text, this means allowing each hospital doctor "to prescribe it to all patients suffering from symptomatic forms of the Covid-19 condition, particularly those suffering from pulmonary disorders if their condition so requires", while stressing the need to "avoid self-medication at all costs". "We call on the state to make reservations or orders for hydroxychloroquine so that, if the efficacy is confirmed in the coming days, we will not be in want of treatment," added the petition.
This was initiated by the former Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy and Professor Christian Perronne, head of the infectious diseases department of the Raymond-Poincaré de Garches hospital and specialist in Lyme disease. They published in Le Parisien an appeal co-signed by personalities from the medical world, including Patrick Pelloux and Michèle Barzach, former Minister of Health.
Studies not carried out "according to standard scientific protocols"
Several publications, Chinese and French, report positive results on patients with Covid-19. In France, the highly publicized Pr Didier Raoult and his team at the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée infection concluded, in two publications (on twenty patients then 80), with “the effectiveness of the associated hydroxychloroquine to azithromycin in the treatment of Covid-19 ”.
But many scientists and the World Health Organization (WHO) point to the limits of these studies, because they were not conducted according to standard scientific protocols: lot of patients, doctors and patients unaware who receives the treatment , results published in an independent peer-reviewed scientific journal, etc.
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