THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control
(NAFDAC) has urged traditional medicine practitioners, who claim to
have developed a cure for Coronavirus, to bring their products for
clinical evaluation.
This is coming against the backdrop of claims by traditional and
alternative medicine practitioners and manufacturers to have
developed an herbal formula that can treat and cure COVID-19.
The agency noted that most of the claims of cure or at best
treatment for the symptoms of COVID-19 by traditional drug
practitioners are domiciled in either the conventional news media
or social media.
It said only one application has so far been received for the
treatment of the symptoms of COVID-19, and not for the cure of
COVID-19 as a disease.
The Director-General of the NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Christianah
Adeyeye, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said: “The rush to
mitigate the mortality and morbidly resulting from the COVID 19
pandemic has resulted in acceleration of product development,
re-purposing of formulations, off label use of therapeutics and the
search for a vaccine to prevent COVID 19.
“In a bid to discover a cure, therefore, the public has
witnessed quite a number of claims from different quotas –
Complementary & Alternative Medicines Practitioners, Traditional
healers and the Academia. It is pertinent to note, however, that
these claims are domiciled in either the conventional news media or
the social media.
“A claim of a cure must be subjected to clinical evaluation
through well controlled, randomised clinical trials following an
approved clinical trial protocol.”
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control
(NAFDAC) has urged traditional medicine practitioners, who claim to
have developed a cure for Coronavirus, to bring their products for
clinical evaluation.
This is coming against the backdrop of claims by traditional and
alternative medicine practitioners and manufacturers to have
developed an herbal formula that can treat and cure COVID-19.
The agency noted that most of the claims of cure or at best
treatment for the symptoms of COVID-19 by traditional drug
practitioners are domiciled in either the conventional news media
or social media.
It said only one application has so far been received for the
treatment of the symptoms of COVID-19, and not for the cure of
COVID-19 as a disease.
The Director-General of the NAFDAC, Prof Mojisola Christianah
Adeyeye, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said: “The rush to
mitigate the mortality and morbidly resulting from the COVID 19
pandemic has resulted in acceleration of product development,
re-purposing of formulations, off label use of therapeutics and the
search for a vaccine to prevent COVID 19.
“In a bid to discover a cure, therefore, the public has
witnessed quite a number of claims from different quotas –
Complementary & Alternative Medicines Practitioners, Traditional
healers and the Academia. It is pertinent to note, however, that
these claims are domiciled in either the conventional news media or
the social media.
“A claim of a cure must be subjected to clinical evaluation
through well controlled, randomised clinical trials following an
approved clinical trial protocol.”