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Helping doctors in Africa

Witch doctors sti

“ EDITOR'S NOTE: They cali them ngangas, i

Tshuma is one of 8,000

al healers, Or, sometimes less complimentary, witch doc- tors. But these African heal- ers are being used more and more on the continent, to help ease the load on conven- tional LWestern-trained phy-

. By John Edlin

“BULAWAYO Zimbabwe (AP) - Before he examines a patient, Dr. Bingara Tshuma straightens his animal-skin head-dress, removes his shoes, inhales snuff through both nostrils and wills him- self into a hypnotic trance.

“I have to call on my spirit

to advise me,” says Tshuma, 50, consultant traditional healer who shares a medical centre with two conventional Western-trained doctors. “There's very little spirits can't cure.”

vA spirit and herbalists whose cen- turies-old cures are being increasingly enlisted to lessen the load on contempor- ary doctors and spread health care to all the 7.2 million inhabitants. “Ocioke wai cine gere gave a choice between the nganga (traditional healer) or the doctors,” says Babra Sib- anda, a registered nurse who owns the Zimbabwe Medical and Traditional Practi- tioners’ Centre next door to the come again tailors and Judy Hardy School of Ballet in Zimbabwe's second-largest city. L“But the nganga is the busiest of our consultants. Even whites choose to go to him.”

A retired white railroad

i in his

ing room furnished . with game skins and fitted with shelves of secret potions made from herbs, bark and vital organs of wild animals. reptiles and birds.

“Don't use my name my friends would laugh at me, but this chap cured me of gout,” he says, "I was a long sufferer but after two weeks of his muti (medicine) I'm fit as a fiddle.”

According to the World Health Organization, Africa has only ove doctor for every 5,434 people, compared with one for 528 in Western Europe.

But there are tens of thou- sands of traditional healers who, in colonial times, were forced to operate under- ground to dodge anti-witch- craft laws and who in most

tries have yet to be

from Tshuma’s tiny consult-

recognized.

Traditional healers h h he

racticing

illnesses in this country are tic and curable

8 pass on their secrets, and their spirits, from father to son or mother to daughter and claim to be able to cure most illnesses,

“People who really believe that by swallowing certain medicines they will get well will frequently do so,” said Dr. Halfdan Mahler of Den- mark, director-general of the World Health Organization.

“Nothing should be sacro- sanct simply because we have been led to believe that it is witchcarft,” he said.

CAN TEACH US

by the ngangas,” insists a respected white Salisbury surgeon, Dr. Isadore Rosin.

Ruda Nyamuswa, a med- ical graduate of University of Pennsylvania, has opened a psychiatric clinic here in which she uses ngangas.

“People want to return to their cultural roots which were suppressed for many years,” she said. “Traditional healers and spirit mediums are a central part of those roots.”

also a Wes-

“These 1 healers have got a lot to teach us, especially in the field of mental health,” said Zimbabwe's deputy health minister Dr. Simon Maz- orod:

ze. ‘orty to 60 per cent of

Health Minister Herbert U

tern trained physician, has vowed to repeal the anti- it ft laws and

figure of about 17 in 1,000 among whites.

He has already officially recognized the 8,000-member Zimbabwe Tradiational Healers’ Association and pledged it money to build a research centre,

But, while more. than 90 per cent of Zimbabwe's

- people get free health care,

the ngangas still charge patients anthing from the equivalent of $8 for a consul- tation for a cold to $25 for a love potion. The ngangas say they can’t change this custom. “I am only the medium,” explains Josia Toto, a spirit- ualist who operates from the

the traditional healers in the health service to help reduce the mortality rate from 120 in 1,000 among blacks to the

y p of Harare. “I make no decisions as to charges. The spirits decide how much should be charged.”

Peking has summer of color

« By VictoriaGraham

PEKING (AP - The summer scene here in the ancient City of Swallows: women in thin dresses, ro- mance in the parks, an abundance of luscious water- melons - and the annual shortage of beer.

The warm weather also brings a plague of raucous

The rush is on for pretty things that would have been denounced as decadent and bourgeois not many years ago: colorful clothes, baubles, chic sunglasses and perfume.

WEAR WHITE GLOVES

A symbol of summer is a comely girl in a sheer, short, cotton dress. She wears white gloves, a huge, floppy white fir ti.

motorbikes and on

foller skates. Plump, rosy- -

cheeked grandmothers sell frozen sweets on almost every streetcorner and tough-looking jobless kids hawk roses.

Dedicated consumers scramble for the latest Hong Kong styles at nighttime Bazaars. young people read love stories and engineering Books under ‘eerie orange street lights and thousands fill the vast square of heaven- ly Peace for midnight pic- nics.

’ The summer of 1981 is the

summer of color in the city known for high grey walls and years of relentless prole- tarian grey garb. It is the season of style an unabashed fashion revolution is under way with the official blessing of a Communist part leader- ship that now touts con- sumerism and ahigher stan- dard of living.

metre plastic high-heeled shoes and sheer nylon knee- stockings - pantyhose haven't arrived yet. .

She wears imitation desig- ner sunglasses, or gold- rimmed sunglasses that say “Made in Taiwan” - and she leaves on the label for status. She may wear rhinestone pins or-a golden corss and leave a trail of sweet perfum in her wake.

In the summer of 1981, there is no official carping about decadent clothes, bell- bottom trousers or sexy music.

The Peking Evening News, a popular tabloid, recently declared: “A skirt should be knee-length or a little short- er.” It added that “a shirt exposes the beauty of line.”

“The skirt which is pressed to the body shows the bodily curves of the female and the hanging skirt changes into

- Vancouver cab is _experimental car

= VANCOUVER (CP) — Kar- en Jensen loves the cab she Grives, No. 120. It’s unique among her firm’s 128-car fleet, not because it runs Smoothly, quietly and econ- Dmically, but because it does 3o on natural gas fuel. = Cab 120 is a part of a joint 4tudy by Black To Cabs Ltd. ‘and B.C. Research, a provin- gially-funded research insti- jute located at the University of B.C., iat coutd result in the company converting its zntire fleet to natural gas.

x “It’s definitely feasible, Sut it’s going to cost a lot of Znoney,"” said company man- ager Sam Chessa.

2: Don Sheraton, head of B.C. -Research’s natural gas con- Yersion division, estimates it would cost about $2,000 to convert each car.

: He says tests have shown that conversion to natural gas can mean a 60-per-cent sav- ings in fuel costs. Cars: that run on natural gas emit 90- per-cent less pollution at run- ning speeds, he says.

RUNS BETTER “This car actually better on

natural gas,’’ said Jensen.

;,, But the company faces -amajor hurdle before it can proceed with the conversions. Recent jumps in natural gas

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prices have Black Top con- cerned that nore increases await them further down the road and the firm is seeking a fixed price from the provincial government.

Chessa said the govern- ment doesn’t appear to be prepared to offer such an agreement.

Other taxi firms in the Vancouver area are keeping an eye on Black Tops’ moves.

B.C. Science Minister Pat McGeer started a program this spring under U.S. auto- motive expert Enoch Durbin to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of existing natural gas conversion kits for cars.

Current conversion kits are very much overpriced and very inferior from an engin- eering point of view,”’ Mc- Geer said at a May press conference called to drum up interest in the abundant prov- incial resource.

Black Top hopes to get approval for a natural gas fuelling station downtown if it goes ahead with the conver- sion. Jensen has to drive to UBC to fuel up now and, although B.C. research pro- vides the fuel for free, that costs her valuable driving time.

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flowing, wavy lines as a ‘woman walks.”

Other stylish young women ware traditional high- collared, clinging dresses with slits up the sides.

: HARD FOR MEN

Males lament that the fa- shion craze seems to benefit women more than mem. But stylish men wear chepa Wes- tern suits and ties, rakish caps and sunglasses. Their hair is pomaded.

In the summer of 1981 life is freer in Peking than ever before and politics seems peripheral to life.

Bright motorbikes surge through the streets. China has banned further sales because of noise, pollution

and accidents. It also has banned roller skating in the streets because of accidents and has warned more-daring skaters to confine their antics to rinks.

Other summertime tradi- tions in Peking are the short- ages of beer and the abun- dance of watermelons, ice cream and black fermented

Again this year most stores and restaurants run out of beer by noon and long beer lines are a sign of the times.

One of the most popular alternatives to beer is fer- mented black tea, a recent health fad. Sweet-sour plum juice also is in deman, as is

Coca-Cola which is bottled now in Peking and mostly for sale to tourists. POPSICKLES ON ICE Tee cream and popsickle production is up, however, and 600 million kles are

Many people haul their beds outdoors and sleep on the sidewalk.

Because their quarters are cramped and stifling, entire families often camp out in the

in cold storage. The govern- ment estimates that urban residents will buy 150 pop- sickles and about two kilo- grams of ice cream per capit to beat the heat this summer.

The magic of summer, however, is the magic of summer nights. As darknwss falls, families, drowse on their doorsteps. They sit on miniature stools, fan them- selves, wash their babies, watch their neighbors, pass the time in gossip.

square of h Peace - Tienanmen Square. They eat, drink and play cards or checkers. Old men bring their birds, students study for exams, kids fly ghostly kites under the moon, lovers stroll. The warm night passes slowly and well.

In the parks the warm darkness kindly lends the privacy lacking in Chinese society. On the benches, in secluded dells, there's romance this summer of 1981.

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