{"id":24491,"date":"2021-06-14T15:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24491"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:11:47","slug":"pharmaceutical-society-pledges-support-for-prof-ogwangs-covidex-therapy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/14\/pharmaceutical-society-pledges-support-for-prof-ogwangs-covidex-therapy-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical Society Pledges Support For Prof Ogwang&#8217;s COVIDEX Therapy Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda has pledged to support the medical trials of Professor Ogwang Engweu.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ogwang&#8217;s COVID-19 therapy, COVIDEX, has been trending online with many describing it as one that has healing powers for the deadly pandemic.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>PSU&#8217;s statement issued on Mondag says the society has decided to set up a task force to render support to Professor Ogwang and work with the National Drug Authority (NDA) on the modalities to approve the remedy.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>NDA has previously approved medicines produced by Professor Engweu.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>BELOW IS THE STATEMENT<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":24492,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"461\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive-461x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive-768x1707.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive-691x1536.jpg 691w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive-922x2048.jpg 922w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive-360x800.jpg 360w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screenshot_20210614-150731_Drive.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pharmaceutical Society of Uganda has pledged to support the medical trials of Professor Ogwang Engweu. Ogwang&#8217;s COVID-19 therapy, COVIDEX, has been trending online with many describing it as one that has healing powers for the deadly pandemic. PSU&#8217;s statement issued on Mondag says the society has decided to set up a task force to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24494,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491\/revisions\/24494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}