When modern medicine flounders, should traditional healers fill the void?

Filling a health care gap

Faith and traditional healers, along with the use of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine, has been the bedrock of health care across communities around the world for centuries. Across South Asia, it has offered a remedy to the failings of the modern medical system which is marred by a lack of investment, deep inequities, lack of access to care in semi-urban, rural and remote areas, severe doctor shortages and rising health care costs.

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