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Home » News » Health » Save us from shame – The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria begs Buhari on importing the cure for COVID-19 from Madagascar

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Save us from shame – The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria begs Buhari on importing the cure for COVID-19 from Madagascar

by Matthew John Alex
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The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria is not with the Federal Government of Nigeria to import the cure for COVID-19 made in Madagascar known as “COVID-Organic”.

The president of Nigeria has been reported to have given a directive order to import the cure into the country which Naijanews360 has reported to land in Abuja soon.

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The president of The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa released a long but detailed statement concerning the import of the herbal cure for the pandemic which has made major activities to be put on hold till further notice.

The statement reads;

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has received the news that the Federal Government of Nigeria is about to import a herbal concoction called COVID Organics (CVO) from Madagascar with utter disbelief.

While in principle we would not mind Nigerian government importing any new drug that is proven to cure COVID-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 NEWCASTLE’.

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 Universi-ties (43 Federal, 52 State and 79 private), 20 Faculties of Pharmacy and about 69 Federal-Funded Research Institutes (including National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research & Development 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 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 specifically 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 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 to local research and development. But our Government has remained essentially silent only waiting to participate in WHO sponsored or mandated 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 supply us synthetic and chemically-sophisticated medicines which we apparently lack the technology to produce, why must we wait for the World to supply us herbal formulations which we can easily make and which we have similar products.”

The president also added that the the FGN should save them from the shame of having to deal with the aftermath of importing, he said;

We urge our Government to save Nigerian Pharmaceutical Scientists and other scientists from the shame of having our country import and try herbal remedies which God has given us in abundance and some of which our grandfathers and grandmothers have used for ages. Let us try our own local formulations before we try COVID Organics or any other imported remedy.

Every well-meaning nation has been in a race to find cures, remedies, and other medical supplies used for COVID-19, while we seem to wait for other nations to solve our problems. There is much talk but little action. This dependency mentality needs to change and now is the time. We must seize this opportunity to look inwards, build confidence on our abilities, competences, and re-orientate our national economic philosophy from import dependency to export-driven. And Nigeria can beat India and China in the production and export of herbal products if anyone is willing to lead us down this part.  

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Matthew John Alex; The founder and CEO of Naijatech360 and Naijanews360. I am a web developer with experience in JavaScript, jQuery, HTML/CSS(Bootstrap), and PHP. I am also a digital journalist and copywriter with experience in content creation, SEO, and web design using WordPress, Wix, and several others.

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