#PRESSRELEASE: THIS IMPORTATION OF COVID ORGANICS (CVO) FROM MADAGASCAR IS SIMPLY DISTASTEFUL
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (@psnnational1927, @PSN_Secretariat) has received the news that the @NigeriaGov is about to import a herbal concoction called COVID Organics...
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (@psnnational1927, @PSN_Secretariat) has received the news that the @NigeriaGov is about to import a herbal concoction called COVID Organics...
...from Madagascar with utter disbelief. While in principle we would not mind @NigeriaGov importing any new drug that is proven to cure #COVIDー19 or indeed any other disease for which we have neither the capacity, nor the technology to produce locally...
...we are totally appalled that Nigeria is about to spend scarce foreign exchange to import ‘COAL INTO NEW-CASTLE’. Even if we are not going to pay for this, it is thoroughly disgraceful that a country that should be the leader of Africa,...
...with the largest GDP will allow itself to be dragged this low. Nigeria has about 174 Universities (43 Federal, 52 State and 79 private), 20 Faculties of Pharmacy and about 69 Federal-Funded Research Institutes (incl @NIPRD1, and the National Institute for Medical Research)..
...while Madagascar has only 6 Universities, 1 Faculty of Pharmacy and 9 Research Centers!!!
Nigeria has some of the best scientists (Pharmaceutical, Medical, Biochemical, Biological etc.) in the world who have done so much work on natural and herbal medicines. Nigeria has...
Nigeria has some of the best scientists (Pharmaceutical, Medical, Biochemical, Biological etc.) in the world who have done so much work on natural and herbal medicines. Nigeria has...
...developed a pharmacopeia of natural and herbal products and has one of the richest flora and fauna - potent sources of phytomedicines. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, a number of them have raised their voices that they have herbal and natural products that can be used to..
...treat or manage COVID-19. Some have patents. Many herbal companies and producers have announced spe-cifically that they have herbal formulations that can do what this ‘invention’ from Madagascar can do.
We have raised our voices severally that the Federal Government...
We have raised our voices severally that the Federal Government...
..should review these claims and help put them through clinical evaluation as most of these producers cannot afford to conduct clinical trials. We have recommended that a portion of the nearly 25 Billion Naira donated/allocated for the COVID-19 pandemic should be dedicated for...
But our Government has remained essentially silent only waiting to participate in WHO sponsored or man-dated trials. We have been told that Nigeria is participating in the WHO solidarity trial, but nothing on trying our own inventions and formulations.
Now we want to import COVID Organics. from Madagascar to try? Why are we like this? If the world can sup-ply us synthetic and chemically-sophisticated medicines which we apparently lack the technology to pro-duce, why must we wait for the World to supply us herbal formulations...
Read full release here: bit.ly/PSNCOVIDORGANIC
