Kayode Oyero

The Federal Government says there are pharmaceutical processes and standards that must be observed before endorsing any proposed herbal or homegrown drug for use by coronavirus patients in the country.

The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, made this known on Friday during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja.

He said the health ministry would soon meet with scientists, researchers, and traditional medicine specialists in the country who have registered that they have one drug or the other for the treatment of the lethal virus.

He noted that the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control would test such drugs to ascertain whether they are fit for human consumption or not, adding that the drugs would undergo clinical trials that require a few COVID-19 patients to willingly accept to use them.

Responding in Yoruba Language to a question asked by a reporter from an indigenous TV station, the minister said, “We are still on it. We are still collecting interests and research findings from those who have said they have herbal drugs for the treatment of coronavirus.

“A lot has been said on herbs and some other concoction prepared for the treatment of the disease but we can’t start administering it on patients as there are laid-down guidelines on the testing and approval of drugs before they are dispensed to patients.

“The first step is that NAFDAC must check the effectiveness of the drugs and examine if they are fit for human consumption.

“After NAFDAC certifies the drugs as okay for consumption, we will then hand it over to doctors and clinicians. But even before it gets to this stage, there must be volunteers for clinical trials. We have to test it on volunteers who will put it in writing that they accept to use it.

“After the clinical trials, we will observe these volunteers for reduced symptoms. We will record this and also examine the side effect of the drugs. We must observe all these processes, so it is not a quick one. We will hold a meeting with the people who have said they have one drug or the other for the treatment of COVID-19.”

Also, the Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, encouraged scientists in the country to come up with home-based drugs for the treatment of the infection.

“There is no single cure to COVID-19 that I know of from all the literatures. Everybody is trying his hands on one thing or the other, even bigger economies with established medical infrastructure. Today it is Hydroxychloroquine, tomorrow it is another thing. And after a while, you hear those treatment prescribed being discredited.

“We are looking at all the options and suggestions. We are looking at what is happening in Senegal, Madagascar and we are also looking internally and urging our scientists and researchers to come up with solutions and go through revalidation processes, who knows, a cure can emerge from our country.

“We will continue to push the agenda for a local solution but if help comes from outside, we will receive it,” the SGF said.

https://punchng.com/fg-seeks-covid-19-patients-for-herbal-drug-trials/

They full for Lagos and Kano. Covid-19 patients are not scarce in the core APC states.

Oya it's time to prove your patriotism to your beloved country .

Where is Sarrki ?

Hmm

Why not start the trial with yaya bello of kogi state and buhari kids.I think there also have d covid123456789

Now we are talking

We are waiting.... Hope we av breakthrough coz everything will be embezzle


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Nigeria and Drama

Testing microphone

Kukuma say FG is looking for LABRAT

Na now their head correct....something they ought to have engaged in since!..

Always on the wait for a white man's final judgement!...mtcheeeew!!

To swallow this government just dey hungry me!!

My grandpa go get mixture for this thing

Let me go our village

So, their day just break abi... Nonsense people. After they have succeeded killing all the malaria patients finish, now they have sense. Idiot people. God will put an end to all this nonsense. Yes

Let them go to Kano and collect samples. They have lots of Bokas (herbalists). There is no herbal medicine u will not find there. The only problem is that they lack packaging.

Abeg i have a few friends i can donate.

Contact Sat Gurumahragi, the cure is inside his gardens, you can also gather all of them in front of odumeje, he will cure them with a smack down

Okay

Italy just produced something and called it vaccine and the whole media is promoting it as the first vaccine.
Madagascar produced an organic mixture that has kept the country working and WHO has been putting so much effort to play it down.
Nigeria is not taking any step out of fear that donors like Bill and Melinda Gates, UNESCO, USAID, Oxfam etc will cut off funding for vaccines that is basically siphoned by Govt officials.

It's really sad that the most populous African nation doesn't have a standard lab and scientists that suppose to have been involved with other foreign countries in developing a vaccine for this disease. Rather we are waiting for other countries to develop and give us to use.

Nigeria has many bright minds abroad in the medical fields that are doing very well.... Unfortunately our nation has failed us in failing to invest in health care over the years.

RIP Oko oloyun, he would have come up with COVID-19 BITTER.


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Abeg try am ooh

The agbo Jedi wey we dey take all this while wey dey work, she they test that one too ni? This guys self.

who is WHO

While world health organisation is give us a timeline of next for a functional vaccine. Every country should start to looking inward to find its own solutions to its problem

Nice one from FGN

Way to go

Nice one, think inwards

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Good, this is what we are talking about

Use animals first

Make una no kill person o

Another level