The health department says new regulations likely to come into force early next year are a step towards getting Western and traditional medicine to work togethe
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At the heart of this reticence are the requirement for registration fees and practitioners’ having to submit proof that they are trained. Training will be handled by experienced healers such as Mawelele. Mbhele says the council will work closely with amakhosi to certify healers and confirm that “we know this healer, we’ve trained him, we’ve seen him practise and we’ve visited him”.
Applicants who can show evidence of their education will have to pay R1 000 for the first year and R500 a year afterwards. Amathwasa will have to pay R200 at first and then R100 a year afterwards, while their tutors will have to pay R5 000 upon first registration and then a yearly renewal of R1 500.
Mbhele counters: “, people can still ask the council to come to be shown areas where need to do things right.”Research shows that power struggles and mistrust are common in efforts to get traditional and Western medicine systems working together., practitioners said they were sceptical about the process and saw no benefits, except for their work being officially recognised. Moreover, registration fees were seen as a tactic to bolster the government’s tax revenue.
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