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Makerere scientists did not okay DDT spray
I was not surprised to read in the Daily Monitor of June 10 that Makerere Scientists Okay DDT.
The article should have read Medical Doctors Okay DDT.
The doctors, who say DDT is okay, are known institututional medical doctors that have never been exposed to the science and art of environmental impact assessment (EIA), whose primary goal is to carry out a comparative cost-benefit analysis of all available alternative actions in the environement and to consider all available issues in a given human concern before a suitable alternative emerges.
In the said study in which the "State-desired alternative " -DDT, for fighting malaria was endorsed, we do not see a true EIA being done.
The medical doctors do their "scientific act" the way they have traditionally done it.
In their scientific study they do not reveal that serious, integratead and integrative EIA
practitioners, who must necessarily grasp the environmental, health and social complexities in a more holistic manner, were at the centre of their (medical doctors) scientific act.
We are at the moment faced with the catastrophe of Lake Victoria, which will worsen with the construction of Bujagali dam.
In DDT re-use another human-environmental catastrophe is looming in this country, courtesy of the shortsightednes and environmental bankruptcy of our shallow trained medical doctors turned environmental assessors.
This must surely be the price of underdevelopment, which will speed up "development in the reverse" or "de-development".
But someone out there should honestly tell me or give me the answer to this rather complicated question: Who cursed this Pearl of Africa?
Oh! Cry Uganda!
F.C. Oweyegha-Afunaduula
Department of Zoology
Makerere University
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