Homeopathy Worldwide Maun Homeopathy Clinic in Botswana Daily News
Maun Homeopathy Clinic in Botswana Daily News
Thanks to your ongoing support the Maun Homeopathy Project's outreach programme is able to provide homeopathic care to people living in isolated rural areas surrounding Maun such as Sehithwa, Boro, Daunara and Ditshiping. To do this work we rely completely on our truck - without it we wouldn't be able to provide a service at all for those patients either too ill to get to the clinic or who live too far away with no transport links. The truck we have relied on for the last five years has sadly broken down one too many times and our mechanic says we definitely need to have a replacement.
So we are asking you to contribute towards the purchase of a replacement second hand vehicle. Once we have sold the old one we will need a further £3,000. We are delighted to have already received a starter donation of £500 and we are hoping that you might be able to donate towards the remainder as a matter of urgency. I am going back to Maun 15th August 2011 and will need to start the process of buying the new transport then.
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Maun Homeopathy Clinic in Botswana Daily News
Homeopathy holistic approach to health
Homeopathy holistic approach to health
Homeopathy has been used worldwide for over 200 years to treat different kinds of ailments such as respiratory and hormonal ailments, depression and many other diseases.
The Maun Homeopathy Clinic, which has been fully operational since 2005, is the only one in the country running as a charity project with the initial mission to assist HIV positive people.
The clinics manager, Ms Irene Moheimang stresses that homeopathy is not a cure for HIV/AIDS, but a source of supplement that boosts the immune system and reduces the chances of someone getting ill as well as scaling down the side effects associated with antiretroviral drugs.
Services: The services of the clinic are free to people who are HIV positive, but those who are not living with the virus pay a certain fee for consultation and remedies.
Ms Moheimang said the clinic was instituted after a director who was a tourist then in Maun in 2002 realised that there was a high number of HIV patients.
The clinic was opened to assist HIV positive patients especially in relation to fighting opportunistic diseases.
The Maun Homeopathy Clinic is registered with the Botswana Health Professional Council (BHPC) and has liaised with the government to teach patients about ARV treatment in hospitals.
Ms Moheimang said on many occasions health services provided cure for physical illnesses while not taking into consideration the emotional and psychological aspect of the patient.
She said at the Maun Homeopathy Clinic patients go through counselling before they are given treatment.
A homeopath volunteer from the United Kingdom, Ms Cherry Kingman said working at the Maun clinic highlighted that homeopathy is a natural medicine with plants making up to 80 per cent of the contents along with with minerals and other medicinal sources.
Homeopathy is a holistic treatment as the remedies given are based on the persons symptoms, family history, emotional aspects as well as the issue of personality, which matter most in an individual healing process and no physical examination is done.
People stay on ARVs and take them concurrently with homeopathy; the remedies make people feel better, she said, adding that the remedies are safe even with new born babies.
Remedies: The remedies are non toxic and no side effect is associated with them as compared to other drugs.
Ms Moheimang said the clinic collaborates with other non governmental organisations such as Bana ba Letsatsi and Women Against Rape (WAR) as their biggest partners as they offer counselling to the traumatised and victims of violence.
She said the recovery rate is amazing and the clinic has received 16 000 patients in 2010 only and received testimony from those who have been healed.
Local health practitioners discourage the use of ARV medication with plant remedies but the Maun Homeopath Clinic manager said this is not based on scientific evidence as plant remedies are harmless.
Yet homeopathy has not just survived the years of scathing criticism, it's prospering.
In the US, consumer sales of homeopathic treatments reached $870 million in 2009, growing at 10 per cent over the previous year, according to estimates from the Nutrition Business Journal reported in Los Angeles Times in June 2011.
However there are worldwide detractors of homeopathy such as doctors against the long standing treatment, who say nobody has an idea how homeopathy remedies work, as they do not have scientific proof according to the Los Angeles Times.
Outreach programme: The clinic has an outreach programme reaching places such as Sehithwa, Boro, Daunara, Ditshiping and others as well as some safari camps.
As a charity project, the biggest challenge they face is lack of funds as the clinic is not generating enough income of its own.
Lack of transport is another major challenge as it negatively impacts on the outreach programmes as the old trucks often break down. The other challenge is that the clinic relies on homeopath volunteers from UK whose residency is only for a few months. BOPA
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