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4 Fully Complicit In the Terrible Suffering': Tedros Adhenom Ghebreyesus Blamed For 2017 Cholera Outbreaks

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'Completely #complicit to the terrible suffering': #tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused of #heck outbreaks in 2017
Health workers accused him of covering up the previous epidemic to protect two African regimes.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, was accused of trivializing cholera epidemics that affected Ethiopia and Sudan in 2017. A group of American doctors wrote that Tedros was “completely complicit in the terrible suffering and dying” resulting from a cholera outbreak in Sudan. Previously, Tedros was faced with allegations that he refused to investigate three cholera outbreaks when he was the Minister of Health of Ethiopia. He is now under attack because he accepts the Communist Chinese government's turn on the treatment of coronavirus, which has killed more than 16,000 people so far.
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came under attack in 2017 for tackling cholera epidemics in Ethiopia and Sudan. Doctors and health professionals accused him at the time of not correctly classifying outbreaks of the disease to prevent embarrassment of the two African regimes.

Almost three years later, Tedros faces similar accusations about his response to the new coronavirus pandemic originating in China. He and the WHO have been heavily examined for defending the Chinese government's response to an outbreak in Wuhan Province in November 2019.

A group of American doctors accused Tedros and accused Tedros of failure to investigate cholera outbreaks in the African country, bordering Ethiopia. Sudanese leaders classified the outbreak as 'acute aqueous diarrhea' rather than cholera, which is caused by a bacterium found in unhygienic drinking water.

The terminology affected whether external health organisations would collect resources to combat an outbreak of the deadly bacteria.
“Your silence about what is clearly a huge cholera epidemic in Sudan daily becomes more reproachable,” the doctors wrote in a letter of September 11, 2017 to Tedros.

“The inevitable history that will be written about this epidemic will surely put you in a ruthless light,” they wrote, adding that Tedros “was completely complicit in the terrible suffering and death that continues to spread.”

Months earlier, Lawrence Gostin, the director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, lobbied Tedros who took over the WHO for addressing cholera outbreaks in Ethiopia in 2006, 2009 and 2011.

Tedros was Minister of Health of Ethiopa from 2005 to 2012, when he took over the Foreign Minister of the East African nation.

'Dr. Tedros is a compassionate and highly competent public servant in the field of public health,” Gostin told The New York Times. “But he had a duty to bring the truth to power and to identify and report honestly verified cholera outbreaks over a long period of time.”

According to The New York Times, WHO officials had privately complained that Ethiopian health officials lied about the outbreaks. The Washington Post reported in August 2016 that the Ethiopian government limited international aid agencies to name the outbreak nothing but “acute watery diarrhoea”, and to publish the number of people who were ill with the epidemic.



Tedros urged The New York Times that the Ethiopian outbreaks were 'acute watery diarrhea' and that it was difficult to test for cholera. He has for a long time rejected the accusations of cholera as a slander campaign of political rivals.

Meanwhile, Henry Thayer, a professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio, and Lianchao Han, the vice president of Citizens Power Initiatives for China, accused Tedros of “closing his eyes” to China's guilt in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.



They wrote in an opinion on March 17 in The Hill that both Xi and Tedros “should be held responsible for the recklessly management of this deadly pandemic.”

The 55-year-old Tedros has praised China's almost universal closure of Wuhan Province as 'a new standard for outbreak reaction'.



On January 14, WHO tweeted that at the time of transmission of coronavirus from man to man there was no evidence. At least 360,000 people around the world have tested positive for coronavirus, which the CDC now says is distributed mainly through personal contact. More than 16,000 have died.

The Sunday Times, a British newspaper, reported that Chinese officials forced scientists early in the outbreak to destroy samples of the virus. The government has also punished doctors who warned of the emerging outbreak.



China's passivity has been echoed all over the world, according to a study conducted by the University of Southampton.





“If interventions in [China] could have been carried out one week, two weeks or three weeks earlier, the cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively - significantly reducing the geographical spread of the disease,” wrote Southampton. Investigator Shengjie Lai.



Although Tedros has praised China, he has not criticized the government there for blaming floating propaganda to the United States and other countries because they are the real points of origin for the coronavirus.

WHO did not respond to a request for comment.