Lehohla slams MAC over vaccines
Jan 17, 2021
3 minutes
MANYANE MANYANE and AMANDA MALIBA
FORMER Statistician-General Pali Lehohla has launched a scathing attack on the government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee of health experts (MAC), saying they dismissed without scientific basis a Covid-19 medical solution discovered by local pulmonologist Dr Emmanuel Taban.
Calling on the MAC to review its decision, Iris Bajabulile Conochie, the co-founder of the Mpumalanga-based company, said the firm’s potential coronavirus pharmaceutical intervention was stymied by senior government officials despite a CSIR study having confirmed its capability to inhibit the growth of the Sars-CoV-2 virus and subsequently recommending animal and human trials in October
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