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Madagascar minister sacked over $2M lollipop plan
An education minister in one of the world’s poorest countries has been sacked after a cockamamie plan to order $2 million in lollipops for schoolchildren.
nypost.com
An education minister in one of the world’s poorest countries has been sacked after a cockamamie plan to order $2 million in lollipops for schoolchildren.
Rijasoa Andriamanana, Madagascar’s education minister, had ordered the lollies to help mask the “bitter” aftertaste of a herbal remedy — still untested — for coronavirus, according to the BBC. The plan was called off and he was booted after objections from Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina.
Rajoelina is pushing the unproven tonic, called Covid-Organics, as a coronavirus cure in the country which has 1,000 cases of the virus and seven COVID-linked deaths.
Despite the Presidential approval, Madagascar’s National Medical Academy has questioned the artemisia-based tonic, arguing that it could hurt people who take it.
