The inhabitants of the second city of the country will be more than four days a week without running water
MADRID, Apr 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of Zimbabwe has authorized a traditional doctor to treat coronavirus patients with herbs, which has generated unrest in the health sector, which it fears will affect efforts to curb the pandemic in the country, which has already left two dead. .
In an official document, the Ministry of Health indicates that the Government “recognizes the use of traditional medicine” for this reason, it considers that registered traditional doctors “can prescribe or administer traditional medicine to their patients.”
The note, dated early April, specifically authorizes a traditional doctor who claims to have “an herbal medicine believed to alleviate Covid-19-related symptoms” and requests that patients who are thus administered be allowed to administer it. they want it.
Speaking to Voice of America, the president of the Zimbabwe College of Public Health Physicians, Nyika Mahachi, has argued that in the current phase of the pandemic “we cannot try our luck with a traditional medicine that is not proven.”
“Even with the medicines that we have, none of them has proven to be effective for the treatment or cure of Covid-19,” he stressed, regretting the step taken by the Government. “I hope this is not a true approval” and that the Ministry of Health “urgently addresses this,” he added.
For his part, the president of the Zimbabwe Association of Traditional Doctors, Tribert Chishanyu, has welcomed the gesture of the Government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. “The practice of traditional medicine is older … than science and is accepted by the majority of Zimbabweans,” he stressed.
“If modern scientists are given the opportunity to prove every time there is a health emergency, why we can not do the same with traditional medicine,” he said in statements to the aforementioned media.
“We are treating symptoms related to Covid-19 so with any luck we may be able to treat Covid-19,” he added, assuring that they are also consulting with “mediums” in hopes of finding such treatment.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry confirmed on Tuesday the second fatality in the country, a man who died Saturday in Bulawayo, the second largest city in Zimbabwe. So far, the African country has registered eleven cases of coronavirus.
REDUCTION OF WATER SUPPLY IN BULAWAYO
Precisely, the authorities of Bulawayo have announced this Wednesday that the drinking water service will be interrupted for four and a half days a week in the framework of the drastic measures adopted in the absence of water.
Thus, the service is expected to be suspended for 108 hours a week, but if this measure is not sufficient to reduce consumption, then the city council has warned that it could further limit supply, according to the newspaper. local ‘Chronicle’.
The reduction in supply, in the midst of a cone-virus pandemic, is due to the low water levels in the dam that supplies the city, with 650,000 inhabitants, due to a severe drought. The city, according to Bloomberg, already started rationing water last year due to its limited resources.
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