Hon. Rauff Hakeem, Attorney at Law,—To ask the Minister of Health and Mass Media,— (2)

(a) Will he inform this House—

(i) whether he is aware of the publication ‘Provisional Clinical Practice Guidelines on COVID-19 suspected and confirmed Patients’;

(ii) if so, of the names of the experts who contributed content and recommendations to the  publication;

(iii) of their affiliations and designations at the time of their serving as expert resource persons;

(iv) of the authority responsible for appointing them; and

(v) of the criteria/basis followed to select them?      

(b) Will he also inform this House—

(i) whether he is aware of Section 7 of the above publication;

(ii) if so, of the names of the specific expert resource persons responsible for the content and recommendations in the abovementioned Section;

(iii) separately, the process, documents and references used to develop the content and recommendations in Section 7; and

(iv) whether the recommendations in Section 7 are subject to the professional opinion of experts in the fields of medical ethics and medical anthropology either locally or internationally?

(c) If not, why?