Stronger medical codes needed

THE EDITOR: According to the newly formed Doctors Ethics and Autonomy Lobby (DEAL), the recently proposed changes to the Medical Board Act make the board more vulnerable to political interference and financial impropriety. Additionally, the changes do not adequately address the need to strengthen “bioethics codes to protect patients’ rights.” These matters were to be discussed on June 25 at a meeting of the board.

The covid19 pandemic awakened all of us in TT and indeed in the world to the need for medical ethics to be strictly adhered to by doctors and the medical establishment. Principal ethical codes are for (i) doctors to “first do no harm,” (ii) patients and doctors to make “joint decisions” about medical interventions, and (iii) medical norms and treatments to be equitably distributed and available to all in society.

It is imperative for the issues raised by DEAL and the outcome of the deliberations of the Medical Board to be made widely known to the public by the media. The covid19 pandemic response by the Government violated medical ethics. Just over half the population was coerced into taking the novel experimental mRNA injections.

In hindsight, these injections did not function as vaccines in the traditional sense as they did not prevent people from getting infected and spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus. More importantly, evidence from other countries shows these injections to have been unsafe.

Arguably, our government’s response to the pandemic violated the practice of medical ethics in unprecedented ways. These violations are of grave concern because of many revelations emerging from other parts of the world. The virus itself was not life-threatening to healthy people under 60 and had a negligible effect on healthy children.

The mRNA injections do not function like legacy vaccines. The number of reported side effects were “off the charts,” including miscarriages and “sudden death.” So numerous are the casualties that “excess deaths” and “turbo cancers” have gone up significantly in countries where data is available on the changes to the average number of deaths recorded per year before and after mass vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2.

In contrast, there is no publicly available national data on the potential adverse events and deaths associated with the mass vaccination programme in TT. Hence, the celebration and decoration of the pandemic response team may have been unwarranted.

What has also come to light post-pandemic is that the global institution entrusted with providing direction to member governments on matters of public health, the World Health Organization, appears to have been captured by pharmaceutical companies whose sole interest is in profiteering from the sale of pharmaceuticals, including vaccines. In fact, the major financiers of WHO are people who invested heavily in the roll-out of the novel experimental mRNA injections.

By all accounts not only are our public medical health services in a shambles but we are in dire need of strengthened codes to govern the practice of medicine. I feel certain that the public is looking forward to greater transparency and accountability from the Medical Board.

On behalf of the people of TT, I demand that the issues raised by DEAL become more thoroughly reported in the mainstream media.

CATHAL HEALY-SINGH

Maracas, St Joseph