The health department’s acting head Anban Pillay was “vindictive” in his calls to investigate Prof Glenda Gray, a trio of SA academics said on Tuesday.
National health department acting director-general Dr Anban Pillay was 'vindictive' in his calls to investigate Prof Glenda Gray, a trio of SA academics said on Tuesday.The health department’s acting head Dr Anban Pillay was “vindictive” in his calls to investigate Prof Glenda Gray, a trio of SA academics said on Tuesday.
The three - Wits University vice-chancellor Adam Habib, Jonathan Jansen from the University of Stellenbosch and Jerome Singh from the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in SA - have called on Pillay to withdraw his complaint to the Medical Research Council board about Gray, who is the president of the council.on Tuesday, saying Pillay’s “perceived victimisation” of Gray would lead to a backlash from the scientific community.
This would involve resignations from health minister Zweli Mkhize’s ministerial advisory committee, to which Gray belongs, “in protest and solidarity”, they said.
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