Using Vaccines Against Covid Is Far Cheaper & Safer Than Using Local Brews!
A recent newspaper headline carried a “
Plea to try traditional medicine before importing billions worth of anti-COVID 19 vaccines”. There are two questions to examine here. (a) In a country afraid of even burying post-Covid corpses and insisting on cremations, should one “release” infectious patients to practitioners of traditional medicine who come in all shades and colours? Should the much abused precautionary principle be applied here? (b) If the country uses indigenous preparations, will it save billions?
We answer these two questions, and then discuss their rationale. (a)Patients who wish to be treated by traditional medical practitioners should be ALLOWED to do so, as long as they use registered practitioners. Secondly, (b) using scientific medicine and its vaccines is not only EFFECTIVE, but also MUCH CHEAPER and safer.