Africa continues to be a testing lab for the world regardless of what the WHO says about this long-standing practice or how critically many African countries view it
“Africa cannot and will not be a testing ground for any vaccine,” the WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, condemning what he called a “racist” suggestion.
To get a sense of how such experiments have harmed the collective psyche of people living on the continent,spoke to a 50-year-old Turkish doctor Serhat Onur, who has volunteered for medical aid and performed surgeries in Africa since 2008. There is no single African country that produces medicine for malaria. The medicines are expensive and all are coming from the West. Nobody is in search of a vaccine to treat malaria because none of the Western countries are suffering from malaria. And if a cure were to be found to treat malaria, then who are they going to sell all these malaria medicines? So if you approach problems with this mindset, we will never be able to find solutions to sufferings of African people.
Each trip takes 15 days; four to five days spent on the journey, 10 days solely for medical aid. We have a team that conducts 700-800 cataract surgeries in 10 days. My team removes bladder stones, and does surgical repair of uterine prolapse and hernia, testicle repair surgeries and reproductive surgeries for women counting to 300-400 surgeries in 10 days.
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