Kyrgyz health minister promotes herbal COVID-19 cure; expert says itâs poisonous By Syndicated Content
Apr 16, 2021 1:47 PM
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan will use a herbal tonic to treat COVID-19, its health minister said on Friday after his president praised the remedy - despite warnings from a medical expert that it contained a potentially lethal poison.
Minister Alymkadyr Beishenaliyev drank a solution made from the roots of aconitum soongaricum at an online briefing to show that it was safe. Those with mild symptoms recover within a day, those with more acute form (of the illness) take it three to four days, he said.
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Kyrgyzstan will use a herbal tonic to treat COVID-19, its health minister said on Friday after his president praised the remedy - despite warnings from a medical expert that it contained a potentially lethal poison.
Minister Alymkadyr Beishenaliyev drank a solution made from the roots of aconitum soongaricum at an online briefing to show that it was safe. Those with mild symptoms recover within a day, those with more acute form (of the illness) take it three to four days, he said.
President Sadyr Japarov had personally provided doctors with a recipe passed on to him by his father, and they were already using it, Beishenaliyev said.
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Corruption risks high in Kyrgyz Health Ministry - expert
AKIPRESS.COM - Corruption risks are high in the Health Ministry of Kyrgyzstan, evidence-based medicine expert Bermet Baryktabasova said at the coordination meeting of law enforcement, fiscal and other government agencies on fight against corruption today.
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Corruption risks high in Kyrgyz Health Ministry - expert
Corruption risks arise in case of public procurements, she said.
Through procurements of PCR test systems, laboratories, personal protective equipment and medicines, she added.
Corruption emerges due to absence of control over procurements, she said. We won t defeat corruption without control. It will grow further, Bermet Baryktabasova stated.
Besides she noted a huge amount of drugs in Kyrgyzstan that have nothing to do with medicine. All obtained assistance should be registered and accounted, the expert stressed.
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