COVID-19: DON'T IGNORE CLAIMS OF LOCAL REMEDIES, DARAMOLA ADMONISHES FG
POLITICS

ADO-EKITI- A former member of the National Assembly, Congressman Bimbo Daramola has admonished the Federal Government to pay attention to the various claims of local remedies for the killer virus – COVID-19 rather than shoving them aside.

Daramola who expressed concern over the seeming slow pace at which the government was fighting the scourge also called for an all- inclusive engagement between the authority, the health professionals as well as the indigenous scientists.

Reviewing the situation in a statement made available to Daily Independent, Daramola stressed the need to establish Test Centres in all Local Government Headquarters in Nigeria .

He commended the Lagos State Governor,Babajide Sanwoolu for rising to the occasion. “I totally appreciate the dedication of the people at the frontlines and the authorities, particularly Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, and of specific mention is the Commissioner for Health, Lagos State both are visibly bogged down and under the weight of this unfortunate incidence,”

The former legislator ,who represented Oye/ Ikole Federal Constituency between 2011-2014 lamented that time was already ticking out for Nigeria “we need a sporadic but professionally guided domesticated review of strategies, and informed by our local realities now”, he averred.

“While testing is going on as said, Government should now corporately and collectively engage resident doctors, biologists, virologists, epidemiologists as I have said before, and not just limit themselves to the head of professional bodies, who most times hardly engage down to the young doctor just coming out of youth service into clinical practice!

“Nigerian doctors are gifted with uncanny abilities and #adaptive #knowledge and #skills having been trained under harrowing conditions unfortunately, this has toughened their professional practice so much that they do know how to navigate difficult bends sometimes.” the statement reads in part.

“For those who have authority to listen, all these claims of remedies (local) that hithero have been shoved down bureaucratic and territorial laundromat should be thrown up for cross fertilisation and incubation.”

“We cannot fold our arms, now isolation centres are getting filled, Minister for health is looking for people to donate houses, what of other cost centres like logistics to go bring 100 cases to isolation centres for example at the same time?

Instead “democratise early testings” and subsidise cost, and the “reviewed and agreeable treatment regime” as agreed to by orthodox doctors can be activated across the country without waiting till it incubates and festers.

“That way we are being pragmatic, we will never have enough isolation centres, we will never have enough personnel dedicated to servicing isolation centres, and of course sharp claims are going to go into cost of running and managing victims and isolation centres by the time we come to this.”

“Today everyone is technically avoiding talking about average cost of managing a victim to recovery, or running the centres for obvious reasons, that we are in the thick of a war, but all wars have cost of prosecuting them, human, financial, and Material”, Daramola maintained.

“Most times they are nebulous, but the ultimate wish and desire is to win, at least first, but having come this far, giving Nigerians spiking figures daily is a sign of losing the war and helplessness. No doubts”

“We are raising a despondent and weary citizenry pool, the communication going on are just for the purpose of news and update not information and assurance of victory in sight.” he regretted.