I Only Published The Drugs I Used, I Never Prescribed It As COVID-19 Treatment -Doyin Okupe

A former senior special assistant (on public affairs) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, has made further clarifications regarding the drugs he used while undergoing covid-19 treatment.

Okupe said that he had earlier published the drugs given to him while he was isolated for Covid-19, but added that he did not in any way prescribe it as a Covid-19 cure.

“I wish to clarify that I published the drugs I took when I was declared positive for covid19; I did this in response to private calls and responses to my posts asking me what treatment I was given. Hence in response I published the medications I took.

“No drug(s) or drug regime anywhere in the world can be categorically or scientifically stated as treatment of choice for covid19,” Okupe stated on his Facebook page on Thursday.

Okupe also said that the drugs adminstered to him were not necessarily the same given to other patients elsewhere.

He advised anyone having the covid-19 symptoms to consult the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control or any doctor for guidance

“I never intended to prescribe a cure treatment for covid19.

“If u develop signs or symptoms suggestive of covid19 infections consult your doctor or contact your local NCDC for assistance,” he said.

Recall that numerous Nigerians had besieged pharmacies to buy chloroquine after the United States President, Donald Trump announced it as a possible cure.
This eventually led some Nigerians to be admitted in hospitals.

His statement further reads:

“The chloroquine regime like all other treatment regimes used all over the world is not sacrosanct and there is not sufficient clinical evidence that it is the treatment of cure.

“I have ONLY stated what drugs I was treated in the Center I was isolated.

“However Lagos uses a completely different treatment regime and the results are not significantly different. As I said about 95% of affected people even without any hospitalization will recover from the illness.

“However I restate that taking drugs that boost yr immunity will be a good preventive step against covid19 and will improve yr potential recovery in case u become infected.

“This is because even though there is no consensus on a cure drug there is a globally accepted scientific fact that the innate competence of the level of immunity of each individual will ultimately determine the course of the illness for individual patient.