Uganda Medical Association (UMA) has expressed concern at Speaker Rebecca Kadaga’s utterances in which she said Uganda would manufacture a drug that will cure Coronavirus in the next two weeks.
Kadaga said she had met an American scientist Sarfraz Njaz who agreed to team up with a Ugandan Mathias Magoola to produce a sanitizer which kills the virus instantly.
Whereas she took the inventors to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the public has lashed out at the Speaker for ”fooling Ugandans including the President.”
The latest to join the public to condemn Kadaga and her team of schemers is the doctor’s’ umbrella UMA.
UMA top executives; Dr Richard Idro the president, Dr Muhereza Mukuzi General Secretary and Dr Misaki Wanyengera a Senior Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Makerere University have issued a stinging statement punching holes in Kadaga’s claims.
“Amongst other things, the statement said “A Professor who manufactured a treatment for corona virus in the US was here last week and he has donated the patent to Uganda and within a fortnight, the treatment will be made here….. It will be made by a Company called Dei International. …..There is hope and the treatment will start here in Uganda.”
To put the records straight, the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (the cause of COVID19) is a new strain of coronaviruses which was only discovered to cause human disease less than 3 months ago in Wuhan, China,” the statement reads in part.
They added that to date, there is no single medicine that can cure this disease or a vaccine that can prevent it, much as many are being tested.
“Any un evidenced claim of a treatment or cure without due scientific evidence and corroboration by a competent institution mandated to regulate medicines is not only incorrect, gives false hope but may also be dangerous. Instead, it diverts the population from known and effective preventive messages,”
These doctors questioned whether Kadaga’s scientists are not masqueraders.
“We express particular displeasure about the quack cadre scientists who desire to misinform the leadership of our country.
From what we understand, whatever was purported as a treatment, cure or vaccine is actually a disinfectant meant for external body use. It’s unlikely the same has approval by the USA Food and Drug Administration where it is claimed to have come from.
Why would the US give the patent of a potential cure to country with not a single case when it has several thousand cases?” they queried.
They explained that for any medicine to be deployed in Uganda, it should have undergone rigorous testing for safety and efficacy by highly trained persons.
