Covid-19: Nigeria'll consider local herbs treatment but... - Health Minister

By Dansu Peter 

The Nigeria's Health Minister, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has the government would consider treating Coronavirus patients with local herbs but not until they are tested and certified safe for human body. 

Answering reporters’ questions at the briefing, the minister said the federal government would not settle for local herbs for COVID-19 cure now because such herbs were yet to be tested on any patient.

He said it would be risky to give patients to such claimants to the cure, in order to avoid toxic being administered on the patients.

“We have to test the efficacy of local drugs to see of it can kill the virus and also to find out that is in the process of killing the virus, it can affect the body. So, the institute will carry out the required test on the local drugs find out how it can work,” Ehanire said.