Minister/Health
 Minister/Health  (Minister) | |
|---|---|
| Interests | Health |
| Responsible for a country's health system. Often part of a regulatory capture, | |
A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for Health. Since they administer large budgets and regulatory functions, they are often part of a regulatory capture, turning into Big pharma/Lobbyists.
The health ministry in most countries also has responsibility for biosecurity.
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COVID-19
In January 2020 Agnès Buzyn was France's Minister of Health and declared hydroxychloroquine a "poison" and banned over the counter sales. In September 2021, she was under investigation for her handling of COVID.[1]
Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19
The SDS-inspired Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19 was an effort to grease the skid for a global COVID vaccine mandate. The second paragraph reads:
We are calling on Health Ministers at the World Health Assembly to rally behind a people's vaccine against this disease urgently. Governments and international partners must unite around a global guarantee which ensures that, when a safe and effective vaccine is developed, it is produced rapidly at scale and made available for all people, in all countries, free of charge. The same applies for all treatments, diagnostics, and other technologies for COVID-19.
Almost all the world's nation states succumbed to the pressure and played along with the COVID project. The exceptions included John Magufuli (President of Tanzania) and his friend Pierre Nkurunziza (President of Burundi). The fact that they both died suddenly may have added to the pressure on health ministers to uncritically accept the dictates given to them about COVID-19.
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Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Peter Gøtzsche | “Bribery is routine and involves large amounts of money. Almost every type of person who can affect the interests of the industry has been bribed: doctors, hospital administrators, cabinet ministers, health inspectors, customs officers, tax assessors, drug registration officials, factory inspectors, pricing officials and political parties. In Latin America, posts as ministers of health are avidly sought, as these ministers are almost invariably rich with wealth coming from the drug industry. In the beginning of this chapter, I asked the question whether we are seeing a lone bad apple now and then, or whether pretty much the whole basket is rotten. What we are seeing is organised crime in an industry that is completely rotten.” | Peter Gøtzsche | 2013 |
