Tuesday, May 12, 2020

CITIZEN News; Herbal medicine for Covid 19 currently testing by authorities

Headline: Herbal medicine for Covid 19 currently testing by authorities


The Ghana Association of Medical Herbalist has presented  a number of homemade medicines for Covid 19 to appropriate authorities for clinical testing.                                    

 According to Dr. Anthony Mensah, the association's president, they are currently waiting for the test results of their medicines.                                    

" The government through the Ministry of Health has contracted practitioners to submit several remedies that we believe would have a very good effect in our fight against Covid 19. "                                                     He said a number of submission have been made through the Ghana Federation of Traditional Medicine Practitioners.                       

The Ministry (of health) has also subsequently forwarded the same( medicines) to the Center for Plant Medicine Research for further testing. What we are waiting now is the outcome if the testing ", he said.                         

Dr. Anthony Mensah expressed hope that, these medicines will be up to the standard in fighting the virus.                                                 

 " Once these homegrown solutions that we are testing, what we believe is that it should be finalized and be finalized quickly so that we know the outcome of the same became we are very optimistic".

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