Can any good thing come out of Madagascar?
What better endorses a product than its proven eff i c a c y? We can think of nothing else. The Madagascar Covid 19 herbal remedy, Covid Organics (CVO) has proven itself over and over again. As of 19/05/20, the island country had had 191 Covid 19 cases, with just a single death recorded. And that happened only recently. The country says it owes this to the herbal remedy that the WHO initially steadfastly refused to recognize until Madagascar started making a ruckus about it.
The country’s President, Andry Rajoelina was livid and didn’t hold back when it was clear the World Health Organisation had other things on its mind than endorsing CVO.
‘’The problem is that it comes from Africa. And they cannot accept that a country like Madagascar, which is one of the poorest countries in the world, has discovered this formula to save the world,” he said. We all know the man knows what he’s talking about.
Although the WHO finally caved in two weeks ago when it reluctantly requested clinical trials of CVO, one would have expected that this is the kind of development that a sincere WHO would have rushed down to the Island nation to see firsthand; the solution described by President Rajoelina as “a preventive and curative remedy against COVID-19” that’s doing the excellent job of keeping Madagascans from the death clutch of the virus.
Rajoelina’s claim that 105 Covid 19 patients recovered after taking the potion can be verified. But he’s not waiting for the naysayers. Hear him: “A marked improvement was observed in the health of the patients who received this remedy just 24 hours after they took the first dose. The cure was noted after seven days, even ten days. This remedy is natural and nontoxic” he said.
Were CVO a western product, the world would have been awash with news of the ‘breakthrough’, just like Redemsivir is being hailed everywhere despite there being nothing conclusive about its ability to cure those afflicted. In fact, doctors would tell you that in view of its potential side effects, it may not be for everybody. And don’t forget, while Redemsivir is being distributed in the West, we haven’t heard anything about Africans accessing it. The only thing being touted here are the unproven vaccines for which human guinea pigs are required for initial trials.
Our Africa, forever regarded as a place that produces nothing, only consuming whatever is sent its way, should make a song and dance about the wonder drug from Madagascar which the kind hearted folks are sending to other countries in Africa. Last week, the president of Guinea Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embaló brought them with him on his visit to Aso Rock. Buhari’s response? They would not be distributed until tested in our laboratories. Fair enough as long as it’s not a ploy to effect delay even as the country records more Covid 19 related deaths
Madagascar has donated CVO to several African countries, and the African Union has said it is talking with the country to obtain technical data regarding the safety and efficiency of the herbal remedy. And so it should. There should be no hold back. We should fast-track the process and have the product out there while working to ensure NIPRD quickly replicates it using other herbs with the same properties to deal with the scourge. We can’t keep looking at an ever upward moving graph of death that the NCDC regularly updates and which many are only too quick to publish.
If ever there was a time when South-south cooperation should play out, this is it. Madagascar has done and is doing its part. The AU should frontline this for the benefit of Africa and mankind in general.