{"id":13671,"date":"2020-05-18T08:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13671"},"modified":"2020-05-18T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:23:29","slug":"lasuth-conducting-studies-on-four-covid-19-drugs-cmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13671","title":{"rendered":"LASUTH conducting studies on four COVID-19 drugs \u2014CMD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, said on Sunday the hospital had developed six COVID-19-related research proposals to enhance the containment strategies against the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CMD, who disclosed this in a statement updating the public on LASUTH\u2019s role in the state\u2019s COVID-19 response, said the LASUTH research committee, headed by Prof. Femi Idowu, a Consultant Neurosurgeon, was conducting research studies on four drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the research studies also focus on coagulation factors and COVID-19 as well as the role of multi-morbidity and multi-organ dysfunction in COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabamwo said: \u201cThe hospital is poised to carry out these studies, for which external and internal funding is already being sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe commissioner for health has been informed about this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, the LASUTH Ethical Committee has been reviewing and giving approvals to the proposed research studies from the state research committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The LASUTH chief added that the hospital had made available a 16-bed holding ward for suspected COVID-19 patients pending the release of their test results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabamwo added: \u201cA philanthropist is putting up another 30-bed holding bay for LASUTH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen completed, the hospital will be able to isolate a lot more suspected cases, pending when they will have their COVID-19 test results.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that LASUTH<\/a> has the capacity to conduct COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, two things needed to happen; our gene expert machine needs to be adapted and reagents kits need to be provided for the tests,\u2019\u2019 he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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