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Mar 12, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

It took me a considerable time to pen this letter, for I believe in government and country. However I am afraid for my health and that of my grandchildren. Last year, one of my grandsons drank the filaria pills and a few weeks later two abscess came out on his arm. The abscesses left a mark on his arm until today.
All along, we resolved that it was bad lifestyle choices on his part and would warn him to practice safe sex. Over the past months, he became shy and would often wear a t-shirt to cover the scar.
Low and behold, a few weeks ago, a nephew of mine complained of pains in his groin, neck glands and armpit after drinking the filaria pills. A similar story was related by another villager who complained that she developed skin rash followed by abscess on her back. This led to my granddaughter who is a second year biology student at UG, searching the internet for the side effects of the pills being distributed by the Ministry of Health.
Our research revealed that the side effects of the pill diethylcarbamazine are itching and swelling of the face, painful and tender glands to the neck, armpits and groins, loss of vision, skin rash, etc.
As a senior citizen, I am very concerned and afraid of what the last government and the present government is doing to their own people. They have repeatedly said that the only side effects are dizziness, nausea and vomiting. But several internet sites are saying otherwise. Is it that my government is lying to me so that I will be a good guinea pig or is the information on the internet wrong?
Have we become guinea pigs to the developed world; a science experiment? They say 70 percent of us must take the filaria pills, but I don’t even see five percent of us with ‘big foot.’ Why is my government caught up in fooling us?
These so-called saviours cannot offer us debt write off but they can afford to give us free filaria and COVID-19 pills which their own people need more than us. What is in this COVID-19 vaccine? What are the true side-effects? Does my government care to tell me? Does my government care about me? Does my government value my health and life?

Regards,
Kellman David Morgan
(Retired Nursing Assistant)

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