Pay witchdoctors retainers to prescribe Covid-19 precautions
A South African sangoma (taditional healer) holds a sick note for a patient at a clinic in Soweto, outside Johannesburg, on March 26, 2014. PHOTO | MARCO LONGARI I AFP
A headline in Uganda’s Daily Monitor about an AFP story on the emergence of purported miracle cures for the novel coronavirus in Africa, summed up the matter succinctly: “Pandemic puts Africa's traditional and Western medicine on collision course”.
“The desperation is combining with faith in traditional medicine, spurring a rush for almost anything claimed to prevent or cure coronavirus, despite stern scientific warnings,” the story said.
