Comment on Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations
hellinkilla@hexbear.net 3 weeks agoI commend your web search skills!
With that info we can post a better photo taken within moments of the above:
Which shows medications being stored in a normal way in boxes which are neatly stacked and organized on shelves.
The med salad colander thing still completely inexplicable. It doesn’t play any role in the workflow according to the photos I saw. It is a chaotic and dangerous way of storing medication. I hypothesize it is staged for the benefit of the photographer, likely with some art direction from her.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I think it was supposed to portray second hand/dubious origin medications being sorted through rather than a pick n mix.
Undoubtedly there was art direction but I expect that from pretty much every photo ever taken.
Either way I think it would be on the articles author for the picture choice rather than the photographer. I don’t think Getty lets you deny who gets to use your photos.
hellinkilla@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
When Oxford was about to liberate its covid vaccine recipe to enable local production in the global south, bill gates swooped in to talk them down. One of his arguments that ultimately won the day is that global south people are too stupid and irresponsible to be in charge of important medicine like that.
This photo is staged to reinforced that kind of stereotype.