The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has reacted to the allegation that it's sidelining COVID-19 cure by Nigerian companies. The agency and the federal government have been accused of sidelining local herbal solutions for coronavirus and importing herbal syrup from Madagascar. DAILY POST recalls that Maurice Iwu, a former chairman of
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has reacted to the allegation that it’s sidelining COVID-19 cure by Nigerian companies.
But NAFDAC boss, Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement, said despite reports, only one company has applied for clinical evaluation of its herbal mixture to treat symptoms of COVID-19. “In a bid to discover a cure, the public has witnessed quite several claims from different quotas; Complementary and Alternative Medicines Practitioners, Traditional healers, and Academia.
“A claim of a cure must be subjected to clinical evaluation through well controlled, randomized clinical trials following an approved clinical trial protocol.
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