Bauchi state Governor Bala Mohammed has ordered the use of
chloroquine drugs to treat coronavirus patients in the state.
Speaking late Wednesday night while updating journalists on the
pandemic in the state, the governor said the drug was administered
on him when infected with the disease, and this he said, cured
him.
“Our medical team is using their own ingenuity to use
chloroquine and Zithromax to treat the patients, even though in
some places, they said it is against the protocol,” he said.
Addressing the medical workers, he said: “As the governor, I’m
taking responsibility for that because I don’t want anyone to die.
I have given you the directive that you must use something that I
have used to get well, just as you have used for all other cases
that got well.
“Rather than saying that something is harmful, we should not
follow what the white people are saying by not taking anything and
die.
“We are used to taking chloroquine in Nigeria; we are going to
use them. We have taken responsibility and I have taken
responsibility.
“Zithromax and chloroquine are not harmful to our body, our
physiological system has adapted to it. If you are having a fever
you take chloroquine.”
The governor further said no death had so far been recorded in
Bauchi because the affected people were using the drug.
“Nobody is affected with any serious distress in Bauchi, even
though now we are going to be tested with the 23 cases,” he
said.
Bauchi state Governor Bala Mohammed has ordered the use of
chloroquine drugs to treat coronavirus patients in the state.
Speaking late Wednesday night while updating journalists on the
pandemic in the state, the governor said the drug was administered
on him when infected with the disease, and this he said, cured
him.
“Our medical team is using their own ingenuity to use
chloroquine and Zithromax to treat the patients, even though in
some places, they said it is against the protocol,” he said.
Addressing the medical workers, he said: “As the governor, I’m
taking responsibility for that because I don’t want anyone to die.
I have given you the directive that you must use something that I
have used to get well, just as you have used for all other cases
that got well.
“Rather than saying that something is harmful, we should not
follow what the white people are saying by not taking anything and
die.
“We are used to taking chloroquine in Nigeria; we are going to
use them. We have taken responsibility and I have taken
responsibility.
“Zithromax and chloroquine are not harmful to our body, our
physiological system has adapted to it. If you are having a fever
you take chloroquine.”
The governor further said no death had so far been recorded in
Bauchi because the affected people were using the drug.
“Nobody is affected with any serious distress in Bauchi, even
though now we are going to be tested with the 23 cases,” he
said.