Madagascar is in the process of equipping its health facilities in order to produce most medicines it currently imports, president Rajoelina announced on Thursday.
The president was reacting to the receipt of state-of-the-art equipment to equip the new pharmaceutical plant “Pharmalagasy.” The consignment was delivered by the Pharma Wing section of Ethiopian Airlines.
“Thanks to the work of Malagasy researchers and foreign scientists, Pharmalagasy will launch CVO+, a curative and preventive capsule against Covid-19 made from artemisia,” Rajoelina added stressing that the move was part of Madagascar positioning “itself on the global pharmaceutical market.”
COVID-Organics has now transited from the usual liquid form, even as government backtracked on administering it via injectables. The capsules are the new form that the president is announcing.
Meanwhile, the WHO and Africa Centers for Disease Control, Africa CDC, have yet to release any findings or developments from their interactions with Malagasy authorities over the purported virus cure.
The country has also announced a partnership with a Bionexx, a company specialized in the culture of artemisia, a move that will make Madagascar the first African producer of medicines based on the medicinal plant, Rajoelina added.
COVID-Organics at a glance
- Rajoelina says it was developed by Malasy Institute of Applied Research.
- Says it is of two type, the curative and preventive
- It is made from Artemisia – an anti-malarial plant that grows on the island
- Another name for it is Tambavy CVO
- The WHO – global and Africa offices have cautioned against it and other unproven herbal drugs
- It is freely distributed in schools and in other public places
- A number of African countries officially requested for them, among others Tanzania, Congo, DRC, Chad, Comoros
- Madagascar made a donation to West African nations in the ECOWAS bloc. But the ECOWAS Commission clarified it hadn’t ordered for or endorsed the potion.
- Africa Centers for Disease Control is in talks with Madagascar over the potion
- According to Rajoelina, the country will sign a confidentiality clause with WHO on the formulation of the drug.
- A number of Africa countries are subjecting the donation to tests before administering if at all.
- Confirmed cases = 1,403
- Number of deaths = 13
- Recoveries = 463
- Active cases = 927
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