BUWEMBO: Money’s with the doc; Out! Leave! You green-tailed cock with red feet!
Being very kind hearted people, Ugandan witchdoctors don’t want to charge you heavily to treat you, just a token sum of a few shillings. But for you to recover, the ancestors require to be fed on a special cock with a green tail and red feet. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG
Last week President Yoweri Museveni directed a sharp raise of doctors’ salaries. There have been several reviews and commissions on professionals’ pay which never seem to end. But on the matter of the doctors’ pay, the president took the matter in his hands and issued a directive.
In effect, Museveni’s decree will curtail a creeping crossover by modern medics to traditional healing. Supported by the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), Uganda mainstream media recently used concealed sophisticated cameras to expose tricks used by public health workers to make money.
