Doctors call on Canadian government to stop funding programme sending homeopaths to Honduras
pharmafile | March 4, 2019 | News story | Sales and Marketing | Canada, Hodnuras, Quebec, TSF, health, homeopathy
Canadian physicians have called on the federal government to review its funding for a programme which sends volunteer homeopaths to Honduras.
Since 2015, the Quebec-based non-profit Terre Sans Frontières (TSF) has been spending $70,000 in aid money from the Government of Canada body Global Affairs Canada on sending more than a dozen homeopaths to Honduras.
The homeopaths are claim they can treat Chagas disease and other serious infectious diseases.
Dr Zain Chaglas, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, commented: “There is no evidence that what they’re using is anything more than diluted water. It’s a placebo, and we’re talking about a disease that can again kill and cause a significant amount of scarring down the line.”
Homeopathy, a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine developed by the German doctor Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, has been widely discredited.
Dr Benjamin Klein, a paediatrician who is a member of the Canada-Honduras Children’s Health Initiative argued that the government should stop funding the programme.
“It’s quackery. From a Canadian point of view, it’s also very concerning that you know our reputation might be compromised and people might look on our team with suspicion,” Klein said.
Louis Goss
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