Belizean Medical Congress Looks at Latest on COVID Treatments

Dr. Wright said that from this past Monday and for the next four days, Belizean doctors are engaged with their international counterparts in the Belize Medical and Dental Association’s thirty-seventh Medical Congress discussing medicine and the coronavirus.  What doctors abroad have been witnessing and coming up with to treat their patients could be of relevance to Belize in the way we respond to our approach the treating our COVID patients, the medical practitioner indicated.

Dr. Uldine Wright

Dr. Uldine Wright, President, BMDA

“It’s a new disease. We did not read about it in any of our textbooks at school, so as new evolutions of the disease come about, the treatment changes, the disease evolves, we are learning both from our local and international presenters. Last year Hydrochloroquine was the medication of choice and we have seen that that no longer works. Ivermectin became popular once all over the world and even in our national product but we have seen how scientific data is showing that in the clinical trials it doesn’t work. So, we’re learning new things with diseases. We have our doctors, our nurses, dental surgeons, allied health technicians like lab tech pharmacists participating in the congress and learning from each other. Worldwide there are studies showing that you can get infected two or three times and the severity again there’s data being collected; some are showing that symptoms get worse, some are showing it’s not as bad. This data is being collected as we speak right now.”

Wright says that lately medical practitioners have been seeing a decline in the number of COVID infections around the world, and this is also expected to be the case in Belize in the coming weeks.