Posted on 04/19/2016 6:16:26 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Govt closes down city North Korean clinics
Apr 17, 2016
Dr. Hamis Kigwangalla, the deputy minister of Health, Social Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, announced during an impromptu visit to the clinics on Friday, one located at Mahiwa Street and the Oriental Traditional Medicine at Magomeni Mikumi both operated by Maibong Company, a North Korean firm.
The deputy minister said the two clinics were operating without legal documents including lacking a business license. While being interrogated by the minister, a healer at the clinic whose name could not easily be availed told the minister that their business is jointly operated with the ruling party (CCM) in Dar es Salaam region.
However, the minister told him that he has already made a call to the CCM leaders who denied the claim. “Even if you are operating with the CCM leaders in the region, so long as you are breaching the national laws and our regulation, we will close down your business without further notice,” the deputy minister declared.
It was discovered that apart from the lack of a business licence, most workers too were operating without work permits. Dr Kingwangala asked them to apply for the permits or face legal action.
The deputy minister who was accompanied by the chairman of the Alternative Health Practices Council of Tanzania (AHPCT) Dr. Edmund Kayombo found Korean healers treating patients at the hospital.
Surprisingly the healers refused to speak out upon being interrogated saying they were not sufficiently fluent in Kiswahili or English languages.
The deputy minister told journalists that the healers were also using fake medicine to treat patients, threatening the health of the public.
Since last year, different media outlets have been reporting on the clinics with others based at Temeke, Mtwara and other places in the country be involved with fake medicines.
Other allegations which were denied by owners were on some North Korean staff not qualified to provide health services, using fake health facilities and not putting the names of drugs and their chemical descriptions.
Never, ever go to Dar Es Salaam. It is an absolute hole, and the weather is unbearable.
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Been there,done that.I'd only make one change to your assessment...I'd substitute "cesspool" for hole.I was there in the early 80's...stayed at the Kilimanjaro Hotel which was,at that time,reputed to be the best hotel in the city.My room overlooked the pool and the first time I looked out the window I saw,to my utter shock,that the water in the pool was dark brown...the color you'd expect the waters of the Nile or the Amazon to be.
Did you ever get to the fish market on the harbor? Ugh...the aroma was indescribable!
I remember walking around and seeing eye-popping poverty, beggars with all sorts of deformities on the streets -- it really was a cesspool.
On the other hand, spent a lot of time in Arusha, which is an absolutely fantastic place that I'm going to take my wife to someday. Even closer to the equator, but a very nice climate because of the altitude.
The North Koreans have become international experts on the health and nutritional benefits of ingesting tree bark and grass.
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