Health Minister Approves Local Herbs for Covid-19 Cure

The Health Minister, Dr. Osagie Ehanire while briefing House of Representatives on Tuesday says local herbs can now be used as remedy for treatment of Covid-19 but must be subject to test by Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development before approval.

As the Presidential Task Forces on Covid-19 was briefing House of Representatives members, Dr. Osagie disclosed that President Buhari is open to the possibility of using local herbs to curb Covid-19.

He said the government was not ruling out the possibility of using local herbs for the treatment of COVID-19 but those who claim to have found cure should have subjected it to test by the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development before embarking on its sales.

He also went on advising hospitals rejecting patients for the fear of Covid-19 not to do such again as it endangers the members of the public and the country to contracting the virus.

This is coming few days after Madagascar developed a local medicine that serves as vaccine to curing Covid-19 infected persons. Through this medicine, the spread of Covid-19 has been reduced to minimal and as at the time of this report, nine(9) Covid-19 patients have been discharged and tested negative numerous times as not even one death has been recorded since it approval.