Healthcare
WHO Director Says Politicizing COVID19 Leads To ‘body bags,’ But He Was Accused Of Covering Up Epidemics In Ethiopia
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, was accused in 2017 of “covering up three cholera epidemics in his home country, Ethiopia, when he was health minister,” and now his overt support of China – from where the coronavirus pandemic emerged – is forcing the Trump administration to reassess whether to pull U.S. funding from the organization.
At the time of the cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia, the New York Times published a damning report suggesting officials were extremely concerned about his future role as Director General.
Just recently, Dr. Tedros and his organization have come under fire by President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, he accused the WHO of being “China-centric” amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump told reporters at the White House during his daily press briefing that he was reassessing U.S. funding to the organization. For example, the U.S. has provided the agency with $893 million during the WHO’s current two-year funding period. According to reports, that includes about $236 million in dues.
“They’ve been wrong about a lot of things,” Trump said. “We’re going to put a hold on money to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it.”
In response, Dr. Tedros said that politicizing the coronavirus will invite more “body bags.” The President has indicated that he’s strongly considering pausing funding for the WHO, which misled the world with early advisories disseminating misinformation about how the virus is spread.
In 2017, however, it was Dr. Tedros who was under fire after an advisor to Dr. David Nabarro, his opponent for the Directorship at the time came forward with the accusation. that he covered up Cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia, according to the Times report. Dr. Tedros said he was “not surprised at all but quite disappointed” by the claims and dismissed the calls, which were also made by high-ranking British health officials, as a “last-minute smear campaign,” the report stated.
Before serving the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros was Ethiopia’s health minister between 2005 to 2012. Some of Ethiopia’s regular outbreaks of Cholera occurred during his tenure.
Lawrence O. Gostin, the director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University warned then that the WHO “might lose its legitimacy” by bringing in someone who worked for a country that had a history of covering up the Cholera outbreaks, some of which occurred under Dr. Tedros’ watch.
“Dr. Tedros is a compassionate and highly competent public health official,” he said at the time. “But he had a duty to speak truth to power and to honestly identify and report verified cholera outbreaks over an extended period.”
Click here to read the full New York Times report.
Healthcare
Nebraska woman who detransitioned sues doctors who facilitated removal of ‘healthy breasts’ when she was a teen battling mental health
Nebraska woman Luka Hein is suing Nebraska Medicine, the Nebraska Medical Center, and University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Physicians who facilitated in her gender transition when she was a teenager; Hein has since detransitioned.
Hein, who is being represented by the Center for American Liberty, filed the suit last week, for removal of her healthy breasts when she was a depressed teenager who struggled with mental health.
“Proceeding straight to breast amputation in a depressed, anxiety-ridden, gender-confused adolescent, who was incapable of understanding the lasting consequences of her decision, constitutes negligence for which Defendants are jointly and severally liable,” the lawsuit states.
Fox News reports:
Throughout adolescence, Hein struggled with her mental health and traumatic experiences, including being allegedly groomed and threatened by an adult man. She had serious mental-health struggles at age 13. By 15 she was diagnosed with “gender identity disorder” and put on a fast track to have her breasts removed, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims that despite Hein’s history, doctors rushed her into gender transition without considering her psychological comorbidities. It says the defendants used deceptive euphemisms and unscientific terminology to sell gender-transition procedures to Hein.
For instance, their use of the phrase “masculinizing hormone therapy” was misleading as the process does not heal the patient but does “inflict harm that causes malfunctioning and malformation of the teenage body and brain,” according to the lawsuit. Testosterone injections, which Hein received as part of her attempted sex change, can cause many negative side effects including high blood pressure and permanent bodily changes such as the development of an Adam’s apple, deepening of the voice, abnormal hair growth, and male pattern balding of the scalp.
The lawsuit says defendants were also negligent in other ways, such as in their shifting from a standard medical diagnosis to the “affirming care” model, which embraces a person’s gender delusion as fact and discourages questioning.
Allegedly one doctor, Nahia J. Amoura, was prepared to go even further. “About a year after starting Luka on testosterone, Dr. Amoura recommended to Luka that she surgically remove her uterus in a partial hysterectomy as the next step in her ‘transition,’” the lawsuit states. The hysterectomy would have permanently sterilized Hein and created hormonal imbalances that would have required long-term medical follow-ups.
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