The Chief Executive Officer of the Amen Scientific Clinic says his herbal research centre produced drugs which have proven to be effective in curing the disease

Speaking to Roland Walker on the AM show on Joy News, Dr. Bonsu said he had early on developed a medicine which he sent abroad to a Covid-19 infected patient.

“Thanks to God, some people who fell on us and have the symptoms - to the extent that in the USA somebody was on oxygen for three days - but by God’s grace when he got hold of our medicine, now he’s okay.

"His difficulty in breathing, coughing, and all the symptoms now by God’s grace have been relieved. He has been relieved from all the symptoms,” he said.

According to him, though he has sent samples of his drugs to the Ministry for testing, he’s yet to receive any feedback.

However he believes, if the country had been fast and listened to him, “especially involving us in the whole process, I think we’d have been the first to come out with medicine and not Madagascar.”

Ghana has currently ordered for the delivery of herbal medicines from Madagascar, purported to be the cure for Covid-19.

But Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Patrick Aboagye says the FDA will first have to do an independent assessment of the drug that they’ve requested from Madagascar before a decision will be taken

Meanwhile the African Union is in discussion with the republic of Maadagascar to obtain a technical data regarding the safety of the herbal remedy recently announced by Madagascar for the treatment of Covid-19

According to the Director for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr.John Nkengasong, the African Union has extended an invitation to the Madagascar scientists to join the African task force for coronavirus preparedness and response, “so that we can better understand what they have done, what the remedy is about, and they can share data with us.”

He says the African Union will be concentrating on two key things before approving the medicine.

“We are looking at safety data that they have generated and secondly, we are looking at efficacy data, what exactly they did,” he said.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a warning against people using untested herbal remedies for coronavirus.

Africans deserve access to medicines that have gone through proper trials even if they are derived from traditional treatments, it said.