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As health system collapses, Zimbabwe turns to street herbs
Associated Press ^ | Nov 6, 2016 4:11 PM EST | Farai Mutsaka

Posted on 11/06/2016 3:36:38 PM PST by Olog-hai

Zimbabwe’s public health system is collapsing along with the economy, with some major hospitals suspending all non-emergency surgeries because painkillers are scarce.

Some in this southern African country are turning to the growing number of peddlers of traditional medicines, many of them young men occupying street corners in the capital, Harare.

“Faulty gear boxes, blown-out fuses. I can fix it all!” shouted Shepherd Mushore. He stood outside a now-closed garage, but he is no mechanic. He displayed tree barks, roots and leaves of all kinds.

“Gear boxes and fuses” are his euphemisms for sexual matters. …

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: folkmedicine; harare; zimbabwe

1 posted on 11/06/2016 3:36:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Thank you totalitarian commie Mugabe. The blood of your people is on your head.


2 posted on 11/06/2016 3:40:37 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Olog-hai

Like California voting to legalize marijuana.


3 posted on 11/06/2016 3:41:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Fungi

And like Hillary and gang, he doesn’t care, he has money and power.


4 posted on 11/06/2016 3:43:25 PM PST by tiki
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To: Olog-hai

If hillary wins, America won’t be far behind.


5 posted on 11/06/2016 3:47:40 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: tiki
...he doesn’t care, he has money and power.

Just as Castro went to Spain for care Mugabe can,for the time being at least,go to South Africa where there are still good hospitals and doctors.

6 posted on 11/06/2016 3:51:03 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: BenLurkin

Some herbs work very well! 15 years ago I had to walk with a cane. Arthritic right knee. Too much shingling and flooring work, American doc just gave me strong Ibuprofen. My Shanghai lady friend took me to a trad Chinese herbal doc. He gave me three bags of mixed herbs to make tea. First three didn’t help. I went back. He said I was much bigger than his other patients, and gave me a stronger batch. Helped some. Went back. Slightly different mixture. I don’t know where my old cane is anymore! Don’t need it!


7 posted on 11/06/2016 3:52:44 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Fungi

Remember, Mugabe was the Leftist Liberal media darling back in the 1980s and could DO NO WRONG, even when he butchered missionaries and shot down passenger planes, then hacked the survivors to death with machetes.

He took a modernized nation and reverted it to a slash and burn jungle economy.


8 posted on 11/06/2016 4:01:34 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
True, reminiscent of Pol Pot in Cambodia. they never learn because they have no allegiance to the true God.
9 posted on 11/06/2016 4:07:03 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Olog-hai
Look. They nuked their health care system but what did the opposition do? Nothing. No plan. No action. So they should be quiet because a nuked health care system is better than what they had.

Oh, and bring back jobs.

10 posted on 11/06/2016 4:10:57 PM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe we should find out what herbs they’re using and if they work. Our healthcare is headed in that direction.


11 posted on 11/06/2016 4:49:09 PM PST by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. d I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
My Shanghai lady friend took me to a trad Chinese herbal doc. He gave me three bags of mixed herbs to make tea. First three didn’t help. I went back. He said I was much bigger than his other patients, and gave me a stronger batch.

Was this the herb? :-)


12 posted on 11/06/2016 4:50:42 PM PST by KarlInOhio (" T'was the witch of November come stealin' " And who could the stealing Witch of November be? Hmm?)
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To: Jack Hammer

There are several people who are or were “darlings”of the left. Hugo Chavez, Mugabe, Hillary Clinton. They all care about “the little people.” At the same time they become fabulously wealthy. Life expectancy in Zimbabwe went from around 60 all they way up to around thirty according to the UN. The liberals should be proud of their accomplishments.


13 posted on 11/06/2016 5:03:33 PM PST by Vehmgericht
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To: KarlInOhio

No Opium! Just barks, roots, flowers, etc.. And I haven’t had to take it since that third visit!


14 posted on 11/06/2016 5:43:48 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Olog-hai

When Obama and Hillary finish with us, we won’t even be able to afford witch doctors.


15 posted on 11/06/2016 10:46:51 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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