Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has dismissed the criticism and comments made by Professor Glenda Gray
– the chief executive and president of the SA Medical Research Council and who serves as a member of the ministerial advisory committee on the Covid-19 coronavirus – towards his department and government’s national command council on Covid-19 as “unfounded” and “misleading”.
Mkhize, through a media statement on Wednesday evening, questioned Gray’s professionalism, ethical standard and motivation in making her claims. He added that “to illustrate this, in April 2019 there were 2 885 patients seen and 500 admissions. In April 2020 there were 834 patients seen and 146 admissions.
In my view, it undermines and brings into disrepute the institution that Gray works for, which is an entity of the health department“Since the establishment of the ministerial advisory committee, 50 advisories have been given to the health minister, all of which have been accepted. The minister also disputed comments by Gray that government’s phased approach to the lockdown was unscientific.
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