Indian Pharmacist Dies After Drinking Botched Coronavirus Treatment

An Indian pharmacist died and his boss was left hospitalised after the pair drank a chemical concoction they had developed in an effort to treat coronavirus, police said Saturday.

The men worked for a herbal medicine company and were testing their treatment — a mix of nitric oxide and sodium nitrate — at a home in southern Chennai city.His colleague Rajkumar was recovering from the poisoning. Kumar said Sivanesan bought the chemicals from a local market and developed the formula after conducting research on the internet.

There are no approved medicines or vaccines for treating COVID-19, triggering a global race for a new drug for the disease that has killed nearly 300,000 people. Nearly 60,000 cases have been detected in India, which has imposed a drastic nationwide lockdown in an effort to halt the spread of the disease.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

At least he died trying to make a breakthrough R.I.P pharmacist

Its part of it(work hazard)and this should not discourage any scientist,pharmacist from developing a cure,mean while in Nigeria we need to look inward for other alternatives.

I suspected foul play

It's possible they were poisoned

I suspects foul play

Unofficial_DM

You see why there should be lab testing & thorough process before announcing it as a cure. People take concoctions, all in the name they said it worked.

DrOlufunmilayo

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