THE government is working on modalities that would see traditional medical practitioners giving off days to their patients, a senior official in the Health and Child Care ministry has said. STEPHEN CHADENGA OWN CORRESPONDENT
Addressing a recent workshop for traditional medical practitioners on HIV and Aids and other chronic disease held in Gweru, the director of traditional medicine in the ministry, Onias Ndoro, said the move was in line with giving due recognition to the work being done by traditional medicine healers in the health sector.
Ndoro, however, pointed out that traditional medical practitioners who abuse the proposed facility would be deregistered.
“The government will not hesitate to deregister practitioners who abuse this facility, so our call is for them to abide by their code of ethics,” Ndoro told delegates.
Traditional Medical Practitioners Council board member, Joyce Tumbare, said it was disheartening that traditional and faith healers were looked down upon with their patients often being dismissed from work in the event they gave them off-days.
