The Food and Drug Administration grants compassionate use permit to a hospital or patient with life-threatening conditions when there is ‘no existing superior alternative therapy that can likely cure or adequately control their conditions’

In the Philippines, the Ivermectin allowed an freely sold online is the one for animals, used to treat heartworm disease. For humans, the Ivermectin available in the country is “in topical formulations under prescription use only,” the FDA had said.