A senior medical officer at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit, Dr Anna Jammeh, has been told off by the families of the Acute Kidney Injury child victims for claiming that “victims families are not cooperating with AKI investigators from the Ministry of Health”. 

The group who goes by the name JusticeFor66+ Campaign’s spokesman Ebrima Sagnia and one of his deputy, Mariama Sisawo described Dr Jammeh’s remarks as “false accusation”.

“We the victims families hereby totally refute these claims by Dr. Anna Jammeh as false and malicious. 

“These unfounded claims by Dr. Jammeh are once again part of the series of attempts by officials of the Ministry of Health to divert and distort the issue of AKI in order to mislead the public and prevent justice and accountability.

“We are particularly concerned that the attempt to undermine investigations is now directed at attacking grieving parents who have no reason whatsoever to refuse to cooperate with investigators. 

“We therefore challenge Dr. Anna Jammeh to disclose the names of victims who have refused to cooperate or gave false information,” the pair said in a statement.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba