Academician (Prof) Dr. Phillip Njemanze, the MD, International Academy of Astronautics (UNESCO) has advised the Federal Government to suspend administering covid 19 astrazeneca vaccine on Nigerians.
About 4 million doses of the vaccine had arrived Nigeria last week.
President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, some State Governors are some eminent Nigerians who have been vaccinated with the vaccine.
Speaking to INNONEWS in Owerri, Njemanze, a former principal investigator of NASA, United States, said there is no basis to continue administering the vaccine on Nigerians, on the basis that Ireland has suspended it’s use on the grounds that some of its citizens administered with the vaccine developed blood clot.
“Since the drug has proven to cause blood clot in some persons in Ireland, it is a medical error for the Federal Government to continue administering Nigerians with Covid 19 astrazeneca vaccine.
“The one used in Ireland is not different from the vaccine we are using here in Nigeria.
“From all indications, this is an experimental vaccine and since there is a proven case of the vaccine causing blood clot in some persons, it does not matter where it has occurred, whether in Ireland, Denmark, it should be suspended.
Njemanze, a world renowned neuroscientist and Chairman, International Institutes of Advanced Research and Training, Chidicon Medical Centre, Owerri, wondered why enormous attention is given to Covid 19 when other diseases such as malaria is killing many Nigerians.
“Covid 19 should not be a national priority when we have just about 168,000 cases and few fatalities when there are diseases such as malaria that is killing thousands of Nigerians” he said.
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