The Minister of Civic Education and National Unity Timothy Pagonachi Mtambo has asked herbalists to join the government in demystifying myths surrounding the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine and persons with albinism.
Mtambo has also courted traditional healers to champion the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) in the country.
Mtambo–My appeal to you all is to go out there and get the vaccine–Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Civic Education and National Unity
At the height of attacks, abductions and/or killings of persons with albinism in Malawi, some the people suspects named herbalists as the ones who sent them to commit the crimes in order to extract body tissues of persons with albinism for use in making charms.