Jean-Paul Mira, a French doctor, has apologised for
suggesting that a potential COVID-19 treatment be brought to Africa for testing
— a remark that sparked outrage on social media.
Mira, who is the intensive care unit (ICU) head at the
Cochin hospital in Paris, had made the remark during an interview on French
television channel LCI.
But, according to Reuters, the Paris network of hospitals,
Mira’s employers, released a statement reported to be from the controversial
ICU head containing his apology for the inciting comment.
“I want to present all my apologies to those who were hurt,
shocked and felt insulted by the remarks that I clumsily expressed on LCI this
week,” the apology read in part.
Camille Locht, a research director with Inserm, France’s
national health institute, had been on TV with Mira to discuss the ongoing
tests for BCG tuberculosis vaccine as a potential COVID-19 cure.
“Should we not do this study in Africa, where there are no
masks, treatment or ICU, a little bit like it’s done, by the way, for certain
AIDS studies or with prostitutes?,” Mira had asked teasingly.
“We try things because we know that they are highly exposed
and they don’t protect themselves.”
In his reply, Locht said: “You are right. We are in the
process of thinking in parallel about a study in Africa. That doesn’t prevent
us from also thinking about a study in Europe and in Australia.”
It is totally inconceivable we keep on cautioning this.— Didier Drogba (@didierdrogba) April 2, 2020
Africa isn’t a testing lab.
I would like to vividly denounce those demeaning, false and most of all deeply racists words.
Helps us save Africa with the current ongoing Covid 19 and flatten the curve. pic.twitter.com/41GIpXaIYv
“Africa isn’t a testing lab. I would like to vividly
denounce those demeaning, false and most of all deeply racist words,” Didier
Drogba, retired Ivory Coast soccer star, wrote on Twitter.
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