He is accused of having violated several articles of the code of medical ethics by promoting and prescribing a treatment based on hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19, despite its lack of proven effect. On the other hand, he did not cause “unjustified risk” to the patients to whom he prescribed this treatment because he “knowingly excluded from the treatment those who presented the highest risk factors”, according to the decision of the president of the national disciplinary chamber, cited by Le Parisien.
Symbolic decision
During the pandemic, Professor Didier Raoult tirelessly defended the virtues of this drug, usually used in the treatment of malaria, not hesitating to speak of a “miracle molecule”. But hydroxychloroquine was ultimately banned in France, then not recommended in Europe by the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to a study published on January 2 in the journal “Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy”, 16,990 deaths were attributable to hydroxychloroquine in the first quarter of 2020 in six countries: France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the United States. 199 deaths were recorded in France and 12,739 in the United States.
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