BANJUL |
Tue Jan 1, 2013 6:03pm EST
BANJUL (Reuters) – AIDS patients would be offering an herbal heal during a 1,111-bed sanatorium in Gambia that a boss pronounced on Tuesday he skeleton to build notwithstanding medical concerns a diagnosis is dangerous.
President Yahya Jammeh pronounced in 2007 he had found a pill of boiled spices to heal AIDS, stirring annoy among Western medical experts who claimed he was giving fake wish to a sick.
“With this plan entrance to fruition, we intend to provide 10,000 HIV/AIDS patients each 6 months by healthy medicine,” Jammeh pronounced in his New Year’s address, adding that he approaching a 1,111-bed sanatorium to open in 2015.
The World Health Organisation and a United Nations have pronounced Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS diagnosis is shocking especially given patients are compulsory to stop their anti-retroviral drugs, creation them some-more disposed to infection.
Jammeh pronounced in Oct that 68 HIV/AIDS patients undergoing his herbal pill had been marinated and discharged, a seventh collection given a treatments began 5 years ago.
Other African leaders have drawn critique for extolling a energy of healthy remedies to fight AIDS.
The administration of former South African President Thabo Mbeki was ridiculed for denying there was a couple between HIV and AIDS while prescribing incomprehensible treatments such as beet base instead of internationally proven medicines.
The HIV rate in Gambia is comparatively low compared to other African states, with 2 percent of a country’s roughly 1.8 million people infected, according to a United Nations.
Jammeh came to energy in Gambia, a splinter of land on Africa’s west seashore that is renouned with sun-seeking European tourists, in a bloodless troops manoeuvre in 1994.
He is indicted by activists of tellurian rights abuses during his rule, and many recently drew general critique for executing 9 death-row inmates by banishment squad.
(Reporting by Pap Saine; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Michael Roddy)
Source: Health Medicine Network