While the health minister Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah believes calling names of COVID-19 victims stigmatizes them, Information Minister Eugene Nagbe argues it is necessary for contact tracingMonrovia – Liberia’s Health Minister Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah and Information Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe are at odds over naming people affected with the COVID-19 virus. Says Dr. Jallah: “I wouldn’t be calling people’s names on the air. COVID is not a death sentenced.”A Hippocratic Oath is an oath stating the obligations and proper conduct of doctors, formerly taken by those beginning medical practice. Therefore, we have to use drastic measures.”Drawing a line of demarcation, Minister Nagbe averred: “The minister is a health practitioner and she took an oath, a Hippocratic Oath. We don’t have the technology other countries have and we are not in normal times.”“The minister is a health practitioner and she took an oath, a Hippocratic Oath.

Source: Front Page Africa April 06, 2020 11:48 UTC