Research on diabetes proves encouraging

Mampong (Ash), Sept 20, GNA- Two medical personnel at the Asante-Mampong Government Hospital who researched into the use of a herbal preparation "MJ Goldoni" against the HIV/AIDS, have again come out with another drug named "Y" for the cure of diabetic wounds.

The drug, the research said has proved potent to reduce the glucose level of diabetic patients, heal diabetic wounds of all sizes and types. Mr Jacob Amoah, a pharmacist and Dr George Acquaye, conducted the research carried out over a one-year period.


Mr Amoah said samples of the research findings were currently under toxicological assessment at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi. He said the drug was applied on a number of people with small non-smelly diabetic wounds as well as those whose diabetic wounds were scheduled for amputation.


Mr Amoah said, however, that one of the patients who had his wounds healed went into a relapse, thus opening up for a further research into the peculiar case.


The findings, Mr Amoah said, also revealed that diabetic wounds were further aggravated when treated with hot or warm water containing salt.

He noted that this practice was common at the major hospitals in the country and, therefore, called for an end to it.


Mr Amoah said the drug sample would be replicated for the public as soon as the assessment at KNUST was completed.


Giving details of the research, he said, 20 diabetics with wounds and another 20 patients without wounds were orally administered with the sample of the drug and were assessed either with or without the medication they were using or taking before the research.


Mr Amoah said those who had wounds were each placed on a standard protocol treatment of Eusol application to the wounds and administered with Ampiclox capsules in addition to the research drug sample. He said they were touched by the plight of diabetics who had their legs amputated to undertake the research.