“There is no evidence of an oral polio vaccine to prevent infection from Covid-19.”

“There is no evidence of an oral polio vaccine to prevent infection from Covid-19.”

Lahore: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) confirms that there is no evidence that an oral polio vaccine protects people from infections from Covid 19.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the GPEI said a clinical trial to address this issue is planned in the United States and will evaluate the evidence when it becomes available to the World Health Organization (WHO). Although there is no evidence, the GPEI statement states that WHO does not recommend oral polio vaccine (OPV) for the prevention of Covid-19.

WHO continues to recommend OPV as part of an important vaccination service to prevent polio and as part of a global polio eradication effort. There are signals from various studies over the years that OPV has non-specific effects on the immune system. These effects are not well characterized and their clinical relevance is unknown. Such non-specific effects may not be limited to OPV, as other live vaccines have also been associated with non-specific protective effects (such as the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis). In contrast, non-live vaccines do not appear to have the same effect.

The exact mechanism of nonspecific defenses elicited by live vaccines needs to be further elucidated. The vaccine in question is licensed and has a good safety record, so clinical trials can start right away. Clinical trials are currently underway, including off-label use of various drugs approved for other indications. Existing scientific evidence suggests that so should OPV and other live vaccines.

Low-risk, low-cost research is currently in discussions with various partners and vaccine makers, including the U.S. FDA, the results of which have been carefully evaluated and their potential in the context of the spread of SARSCoV2 until a specific time. Decide to use Vaccines and antiviral therapy are ready.

Joint Project: On Wednesday, the Council for Health Sciences will allow Varsity Management to enter into an agreement with Oxford University in the UK and build existing capabilities in addition to building existing capacity to treat existing patients with coronavirus. It has made it possible to carry out a joint project to explore ways to divert scientists to develop a process to produce vaccines on a million dose scale.

The board has also approved the establishment of a center for health, well-being, and well-being on campus. This will meet the physical and psychological needs of health care workers who have sometimes burned out due to the intense nature of their work.

UHS BoG’s 44th meeting was chaired by Tassaduq Hussain Jilani, justice (retd). Other members present include Gohar Ejaz, Prof. Javed Akram of UHS VC and representative of Punjab Finance Department, and Prof. Anwar A Khan and Prof. Salima Hashmi attended the meeting via video link. Dr. Asad Zaheer, UHS Registrar, and Baquee Bin Hanif, Treasurer, also attended in addition to other officials.

Explaining the actions Jarbad took to board members, his top priority was to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to doctors and other health workers at the forefront of the war against deadly pandemics. I said.

“Today, we have the ability to prepare more than 9,000 PPEs daily for health workers in government hospitals in Punjab, Balochistan, and Gilgit-Baltistan,” he said, saying that the private sector would He added that he provided a donation for

Professor Javed Akram says the telemedicine center provides 24/7 online consultation services and has received more than 98,000 phone calls to date. He added that psychological assistance is now also available at telemedicine centers, as psychiatrists and clinical psychologists were working to deal with the problems of stress caused by long-term blockades.

The Board members highly appreciated the university’s quick response and the dynamic approach in the face of difficulties, and assured the university’s full support in this regard.

The Board also approved, in principle, the start of a Master’s degree in Health Informatics with Telemedicine and Health Information and Management Systems (HIMS) as its main components.