We’ve received applications to test four local COVID-19 remedies —NAFDAC - Healthwise

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We’ve received applications to test four local COVID-19 remedies —NAFDAC

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control says it has received about four indigenous formulation application for the treatment of COVID-19 from researchers in the country.

“As at now, we have three to four applications and I have given a directive for expedited action for the samples to get to the lab soonest,” she said.“We don’t want to have a product that people will take and start vomiting. According to her, part of the criteria for acceptance and evaluation of every COVID-19 application entails that the plants deployed for use in the remedy is identified.“We need to know the family that the plant used belong to,” she noted.

Adeyeye observed that in a bid to discover a cure, the Nigerian public had been inundated with a number of claims from different quarters comprising complementary and alternative medicines practitioners, traditional healers, and academia.

 

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And what are you waiting for?

I fb asap minajdeity

That's nice. We are getting there

I hope that the long protocols will be cut short because of the health emergency faced by the nation.

that's true

And what are u people still waiting for?

Nice one. Kudos to Late Dora Akunyili. I'm very sure she and team could have find cure soonest.

Then go ahead and start the process

Make them test am on themselves first ooo.

Isiakaabd , this is what I was saying, we should follow due process !!!!

So we waited after 2 months, anyway it's better late than never they say.

Good 👍 news for today

Highly Encouragingly 😷

Our village people are currently pounding. Who will be the first to test it

This is the procedure. All traditional herbal medicine must be subjected to clinical trials and pharmacokinetics by NafdacAgency and WHO before administration on the Nigerian people.

MojirayoAdeleke IFB ASAP

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