By: Nyima Sillah
Hagie Suwaneh, the UDP National Youth Wing 2nd Vice President has voiced that the statement made by the Medical Control Agency (MCA) on AKI investigations during the Ministry of Health press conference held on Monday has signaled something messy.
In an exclusive with The Voice newspaper, Hagie said “the press conference signals that something messy is going on with the AKI investigation. This is the most confusing and contradictory statement the MCA ever released what a dishonest and untruthful leadership.”
He also said the press conference is bogus and it’s directly intended to run away from responsibility and buried the scandalous corruption that is killing children in the country.
“An agency that recently said they cannot test the quality of drugs, is again telling us that the medicines identified by WHO as the cause of AKI are not true.
“The MCA is now twisting it this way that out of the 70 kids that died, some of them died without taking any medication. The question here is how do they know that, because these kids were already diagnosed with AKI before their unfortunate deaths or after death were they tested again?.”
Speaking further, he said: the MCA statement stated that, out of that 70 kids, a good number of them took medication that they have tested and the medications are not affected, but the kids only took those medications and died.
“This statement is a fallacy because after the children took these medications they developed a new disease identified as acute kidney
injury and they died as a result of the AKI,” he said.
More so, he said there is no excuse to say that no one will take a kid and subject them to medication without having any underlying conditions. He added that the complaints heard from all the parents are common among children of that age.
“The Ministry of Health at the inception said that Paracetamol Syrup and other contaminated medicines made by Maiden Pharmaceutical Company Ltd are the causes of the AKI outbreak,” he said.