Wed, 29/07/2009 - 11:40 — Ann
Kiira School
Hosted a cafe on:-
How are drugs made?
4th June 2009
Speaker: Celestine Obua, Deputy Dean, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University
Sandra, one of the students, had asked this question when a Café Scientifique was held at the school in April. Christine and many of the students attending the café took advantage of Celestine’s visit to ask all the questions that popped up as the conversation proceeded.
- Are all medicines important?
- Why do we no longer use Fansida to cure malaria
- How do ARVs become toxic to the body?
- Why does the Ugandan Government import medicinal drugs when we have own experienced professors and pharmacologists who could make the drugs we need?
Everyone identified medicines that come from nature, such as penicillin and alcohol, the first ever drug used by man as an anaesthetic. They also talked about how drugs are made and how they should be used.
