Madagascar has been in the news for touting a herbal medicine product it says can cure the novel coronavirus disease.
So far, other African countries like Guinea-Bissau, Congo, and Tanzania have all taken delivery of the product and are busily using it.
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But Ghana cannot accept or try this medicine.
Ghana’s Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has hinted it will not allow the use of Madagascar’s purported COVID-19 remedy in the country because it hasn’t been scientifically proven by medical experts.
Chief Executive Officer of FDA, Mimi Delese Darko, says Ghana needs more evidence before accepting the product as cure for COVID-19.
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“…Yes, we’ve read about it but what we also look out for is evidence so you cannot just put a drug or a herbal product on the market without evidence and say it treats a disease.
So far as we’ve seen, it was tested in about 20 people over 3 weeks and come out with the claim of cure. There is no published study and what we would say is that we will need more evidence,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said Ghana is ready to make an assessment on ‘COVID-Organics’- the purported COVID-19 cure from Madagascar.
Madagascar President, Andry Rajoelina has been actively promoting the plant-based tonic, COVID-Organics.
South Africa has also expressed readiness to assist Madagascar to undertake scientific analysis of COVID Organics (CVO).
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