[OPINION] Straight-talking doctors and WHO are what we need
Do doctors obey medical profession’s rule on how they earn a living at the expense of saving lives? Much as I appreciate the work medics do, the question is pertinent in view of the COVID-19 outbreak. Recently, I pushed an argument . I noted that the World Health Organisation advised people to not ingest Chloroquine in combating the symptoms of COVID-19, but it recommended no alternatives. This messaging is incomplete; it won’t be effective.
There’s a pandemic and millions are expected to die if certain measures aren’t immediately implemented. So, everyone sacrifices something in order to help. Professional sportspersons accept wage reduction. IMF is traditionally for less government spending, but it urges the Nigerian government not to spare any funds in ensuring that Nigerians are safe from this pandemic. WHO suggests measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
In the US, under pressure the federal government went to China to engage in unfair trade practices. There it paid three times the initial amount for a medical supply that was already paid for and about to be airlifted. President Donald Trump later boasted that he ordered US officials to do anything possible to get supplies. Governments in Europe engaged in the same unfair practices, causing supplies to be diverted on the high seas.
The critic also claims it’s not WHO and doctors’ responsibility to recommend what people should ingest for the purpose of taking care of themselves from the “inside”. Yet when doctors prescribe drugs, they advise patients to eat food first, and sometimes the specific kind of food. When dysentery, diarrhea etc. happen, doctors demonstrate on TV how to prepare the oral rehydration therapy that people ingest.
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