Bill Gates Calls India A "Kind Of Laboratory To Try Things", Faces Backlash

Tuesday, 3 December 2024Newsdesk

Months after the trials began, several participants reported severe side effects and seven deaths were recorded.

New Delhi 03 December 2024

As per news report of NDTV,Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has landed in hot water after referring to India as “a kind of laboratory to try things” during a podcast with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. His remarks, while intended to highlight India's progress and its collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have revived a controversial 2009 clinical trial -- funded by Gates' foundation -- which killed seven tribal schoolgirls and left many others severely ill.

Source -NDTV