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600 PATIENTS SETS TO UNDERGO CHLOROQUINE TRIALS IN LAGOS

600 COVID-19 patients in Lagos have been enlisted for chloroquine trials.


This was disclosed by the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso.


Omotoso revealed that an independent committee would be inaugurated to monitor the process and give advice to the State Government on the progress of the trial.


Omotoso said; "In summary, we will be looking at about 600 patients. The trial will go on till we recruit the required number. There will be an independent Data and Safety Board. The board can advise that study be discontinued if the statistical evidence of the usefulness of a drug is overwhelming and in which case it becomes unethical to withhold it from other groups.”


Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had said the State is now more capable in handling crises of this nature given the experience it had with Ebola six years ago.




“That was also epic in Lagos and it gave Lagos some understanding about how serious infectious disease could be managed. We have an Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba and even after the Ebola case, we had some international grants and over the last two to three years, we have built what we call a bio-security lab level four, which can match any of its kind in the world,” he said.


READ ALSO: HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE IS NOT CERTIFIED FOR TREATING COVID-19 IN NIGERIA – BOSS MUSTAPHA



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