Bauchi Governor Mandates Use Of Chloroquine To Treat COVID-19

Bauchi state Governor Bala Mohammed has ordered the use of chloroquine drugs to treat coronavirus patients in the state.

Speaking late Wednesday night while updating journalists on the pandemic in the state, the governor said the drug was administered on him when infected with the disease, and this he said, cured him.

“Our medical team is using their own ingenuity to use chloroquine and Zithromax to treat the patients, even though in some places, they said it is against the protocol,” he said.

Addressing the medical workers, he said: “As the governor, I’m taking responsibility for that because I don’t want anyone to die. I have given you the directive that you must use something that I have used to get well, just as you have used for all other cases that got well.

“Rather than saying that something is harmful, we should not follow what the white people are saying by not taking anything and die.

“We are used to taking chloroquine in Nigeria; we are going to use them. We have taken responsibility and I have taken responsibility.

“Zithromax and chloroquine are not harmful to our body, our physiological system has adapted to it. If you are having a fever you take chloroquine.”

The governor further said no death had so far been recorded in Bauchi because the affected people were using the drug.

“Nobody is affected with any serious distress in Bauchi, even though now we are going to be tested with the 23 cases,” he said.