Bala Mohammed orders use chloroquine, Zithromax to treat COVID-19 patients

“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,” Governor  Bala Mohammed, said on Wednesday.

Bala Mohammed, who was the COVID-19 index case in the state said he approved the use of chloroquine as a medication for the treatment of COVID-19 because he was treated with “chloroquine and Zithromax.”

Mr Mohammed, , said: “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,”

“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.

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“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.”

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