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Dr. Wouter Basson’s conduct as head of South Africa’s chemical and biological warfare programme has been declared as unethical by an American medical ethics expert, on Wednesday.
Basson has been cleared and not found guilty earlier on 46 charges, ranging from murder to drug dealing and fraud, more than nine years ago. However, the record of some of his evidence now forms part of four charges of unprofessional conduct, to which Basson has plead not guilty.
The charges include that he had acted unprofessionally by coordinating the large scale production of drugs such as Mandrax and tear gases; weaponizing mortar bombs with tear gas; providing disorientation substances for cross-border kidnappings and providing operatives with cyanide capsules for suicidal use.
At the third day of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) hearing, regarding whether to revoke his medical licence or not, Basson told the Mail & Guardian the state was “contractually bound to pay for his defence”. Still African National Congress (ANC) holds it a displeasing act of state to pay the legal bills of Dr. Basson, who has dishonored the medical profession in the eyes of the public.
During the hearing, the council concluded that expert witness Steven Miles could only rely on selected portions of Basson’s evidence during his criminal trial, which ended in April 2002, and nothing more. The ruling followed a short but fierce legal battle between Basson’s advocate Jaap Cilliers SC, and the pro forma complainant Salie Joubert SC. Cilliers said that Basson would strongly deny ever providing anyone with the drug scoline (used to paralyze the muscles of the chest and abdomen of persons on respirators during surgery) for “grab operations”. He said that Miles have been unable to provide any factual basis for his conclusion in this regard. However, Miles’ have still held it unethical for any physician to provide a PCP drug for grab operations.
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