[Civsoc-mw] [NYASANET] Bright Malopa Sees Potential in Malawians Abroad

[Tony Thontholani]

Yes, developed countries they have hospitals for the ill. And the nurse takes over what would otherwise have been the work of the diseased’s wife, mother, grandmother, son, uncle etc. But the uncle, daughter, grandfather have their own obligations and jobs somewhere; they can’t spend all their time on a sickly son. 

Many doctors are merely con artists. And it has always been like that even in traditional African healing. Listening to you jibber about what you think is an ailment and giving you pills. It’s called placebo effect in the science world. Your body should fight that disease. 

Dentists; well that’s something else. Surgeons, well, that’s something else. Although some surgeries are just blah blah blah. 

Is prevention better than cure? Yes, it is. The problem with Malawi is overwhelming ignorance. He was right, the rude Malawian chap, when he said: “Umbuli ndi matenda”.

> On 7. May 2019, at 02:39, Stanley Nazombe <stanley.nazombe at verizon.net> wrote:
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> This is oversimplification. Even those developed nations that can do prevention much easier than the developing nations, they still have hospitals for the sick. A human being who has never been exposed to germs will never develop immunity for those germs. If you can fight off infections now, it is because of that one Tambala coin that you used to put in your mouth as  a kid. Prevention can only take you so far. It can never eliminate diseases completely.