Acting director general of health, Dr Anban Pillay, has criticised ministerial advisory committee (MAC) member Professor Glenda Gray for labelling government’s risk adjusted strategy “unscientific.”
Acting director-general of health Anban Pillay has criticised a ministerial advisory committee member over her remarks on lockdown regulations.Acting director-general of health Dr Anban Pillay has criticised ministerial advisory committee member Prof Glenda Gray for labelling the government’s risk-adjusted Covid-19 strategy “unscientific”.
On the agenda, which TimesLIVE has seen, is an item which reads “concerns expressed to the media by MAC members that the MAC's advice is not being heeded.” The discussion at the meeting was expected be led by Gray and fellow MAC member Prof Ian Sanne. “This is a disease that came to us five months ago. Every country is trying to find the right way, there is no gospel or blueprint which we can use as the standard.
Pillay also emphasised that while the committee was made up of leaders in their fields, their mandate was to advise the minister of health, who would decide whether to agree or disagree with the advice. Pillay said up to 90% of the committee’s recommendations had been adopted almost verbatim. "So what surprises me about Professor Gray’s comments and others is they are talking about things in their personal capacity and not any recommendation that the panel itself has made regarding how long we should take to move from one level to another.”
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