The Federal
Government has said it won’t rule out local herbs in the fight against COVID-19
in Nigeria.
Dr Osagie Ehanire,
Minister of Health said the Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and
Development must first certify the efficacy of local herbs before they are used
in treating COVID-19 patients.
Ehanire made the
clarification during the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on
COVID-19 in Abuja.
He explained that
local herbs can be classified into those that can either cure COVID-19 or reduce
the virus.
According to
Ehanire: “Before now, it was said that Chloroquine can destroy the virus. But
test are still going on in that regard.
“We have to test the
efficacy of local drugs to see of it can kill the virus and also to find out
that is in the profess of killing the virus, it can affect the body. So, the
Institute will carry out the required test on the local drugs find out how it
can work”.
Recall that Ehanire
had disclosed that Remdesivir was being used to treat patients infected with
COVID-19.
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