WANJOHI KABUKURU
TWO French medical Professors Camille Locht of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and the head of intensive medicine at Cochin Hospital in France Prof Jean-Paul Mira stirred Africa’s hornet’s nests.
This happened in early April when they were speaking about the BCG-tuberculosis vaccine ability to treat COVID-19 on France TV channel LCI.
The two researchers ended up noting that testing of the much-anticipated vaccine should be conducted in Africa.
The video clip made headlines in the continent and a compressed cameo version went viral with extensive shares on cross-social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.
Then the reactions started to stream in. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus the World Health Organisation Director General who was a former Ethiopian health and foreign minister termed the French doctors sentiments as “racist remarks”.
Dr Ghebreyesus went on to state that: “Africa cannot and will not be a
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