{"id":452811,"date":"2011-07-04T07:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/04\/tanzania-beware-of-quacks-claiming-to-cure-diabetes-says-minister\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:33:26","slug":"tanzania-beware-of-quacks-claiming-to-cure-diabetes-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/tanzania-beware-of-quacks-claiming-to-cure-diabetes-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: Beware of Quacks Claiming to Cure Diabetes, Says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Citizen<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)<\/p>\n

Habel Chidawali<\/p>\n

30 June 2011<\/p>\n

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Dodoma \u2014 Diabetes patients should be aware of traditional healers claiming to have a cure for the disease because there is no traditional medicine for the illness.This was said in Parliament yesterday by the deputy minister for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Lucy Nkya, when answering a supplementary question from Dr Maua Daftari.<\/p>\n

She had wanted to know the results of tests conducted on the ‘miracle cure’ dispensed by Rev Ambilikile Mwasapila of Samunge village in Loliondo, Ngorongoro District.In reply, Dr Nkya said the tests have not been completed. Therefore there was no clinical proof that the Samunge herbal medicine can cure diabetes as claimed by some people who have taken it, she said.<\/p>\n

Dr Nkya explained that the ministry’s experts, in collaboration with others, was still going on with tests on the Samunge medicine.However, she noted that tests which have been completed have established that the medicine, made from mugariga tree roots, has no bad effects on human beings.In her main question, Ms Kidawa Hamid Salehe (Special Seats – CCM) wanted to know if diabetes could be cured using traditional herbs.<\/p>\n

Dr Nkya told the law makers that diabetes was among serious diseases and people should beware of those who claim to have a cure for it.However, she said the government would not intervene and ban the ‘mugariga’ medicine because many people who had been flocking to the remote Samunge village for the ‘miracle cure’ have been doing so on their own volition.She noted that there were many medicines which were under research as curing diabetes at the Muhimbili National Hospital’s traditional medicine research centre.<\/p>\n

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