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Why Indian therapists want Uhuru adopt traditional medicine in health plan

MOMBASA, KENYA: Ms. Eunice Kabugi stares at a queue outside her shop and mumbles; “not a bad day”. For the last six years, she operates a shop that trades in Indian centuries-old traditional medicine, Ayurvedic.

Ayurveda, loosely translated as the science of life, is a treatment based on a 500 year-old Indian therapy or philosophy and medics which is gaining a strong foothold in the East Africa region.

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