23/09/2026
Tsabong District dialogs with Traditional health practitioners
Tsabong district held two workshops for various types of traditional healers under the theme, strengthening collaboration between traditional health practitioners(THPs) and modern Health practitioners to improve health outcomes in Werda and Middlepits Catchment areas.
The workshops targeted spiritual healers, bone throwers, Traditional midwives, badupi, traditional pediatricians and others.
The activity also involved local leadership and various health professionals who shared notes on different health programs and their challenges in the district.
The objective of the activity was to strengthen the relationship between modern and Traditional Health Practitioners.
The District Health Education coordinator Mr Kesego Mosekiemang, made the THPs aware of the health problems found in district, which he said were diarhoea, TB, scabies mums and others. The workshop was meant for practitioners from both sides to dialogue as they deal with the same client.
Issues discussed ranged from TB, PrEP, Key population, HIV prevention packages and the practice of traditional medicine in the modern era.
The workshops end with Traditional health practitioners and modern/medical medicine practitioners committing to work together for the improvement of the client whom they both share.