Traditional healers have said the government must provide a legal framework that can ensure that there is a collaboration between traditional and modern practitioners, Health Times reports.
Zimbabwe National Indigenous Practitioners Association (ZINIPA) president, Mr Friday Chishanyu, said this in an interview with the publication:
In terms of collaboration with local scientists and medical practitioners, I would say there is unofficial collaboration, there is no documented partnership between us.
Government should take centre stage in coming up with a legal framework for referrals between traditional medicines practitioners and Morden medical practitioners. At moment, the position concerning the COVID-19 situation is that people are coming to buy traditional medicines as immune boosters against the pandemic
A clear legal frameworks for referrals will ensure that there will be collaboration between traditional and modern practitioners. In doing so, we give patients a choice of treatment just like in other countries where indigenous and modern day medical knowledge systems work together to achieve one goal.
Also note that whenever there is an outbreak, not everyone has seeks treatment from hospitals and modern day medicines especially those in remote areas. We do not have a treatment for COVID-19 as yet but we have medicines we have always been using to treat respiratory ailments here in Zimbabwe.
According to WHO, 80 percent of the global population relies on traditional medicines for treatment, while 80% of Zimbabwe’s population also rely on indigenous medicines.
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