Professor Patrick Engeu Ogwang, a Ugandan pharmacist, has
claimed to have invented a treatment for COVID-19 named Covidex.
Covidex is a 100% herbal medicine made using a combination of herbs
containing antiviral properties that local communities in Uganda
have traditionally used to treat viral infections such as measles
and certain coughs. Professor Ogwang claims to have first used the
medicine to successfully treat his colleagues at the peak of the
first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda in December 2020.
On 29 June 2021, the National Drug Authority
(“NDA”), the statutory authority
responsible for drug regulation in Uganda, approved Covidex as a
supportive treatment for the management of viral infections
including COVID-19, but not as a cure for the disease.
