Sangomas undergo six month course at the University of Zimbabwe

The University of Zimbabwe has announced that over 70 traditional healers are undergoing a six-month course in its pharmacy department.

The traditional healers will be attached to reputable traditional "medical" practitioners and this is the first ever formal training of traditional healers in Zimbabwe and the first classes began yesterday.

Maponga said the first two weeks would be theory, followed by attachments before the students returned to the college. The participants will be attached to registered practitioners, spiritual healers or traditional birth attendants.

School of Pharmacy director Charles Maponga, said the response was encouraging and the course would help eradicate societal misconceptions about traditional healers.

The certificate has about eight modules which include law, ethics, introduction to business, project management and sustainable community development.

Some of the lecturers are Professor Lameck Chagonda, president of the Chiefs' Council Chief Fortune Charumbira, and World Health Organisation African regional co-ordinator for traditional medicines Ossy Kasilo.

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