We use bhang to treat measles in our children, women confess

At Lolwe estate in Kisumu county, a woman uses the substance to cure different diseases such as measles dysentery and fever. The leaves are ground into fine particles then administered to the sick . PIC BY COLLINS ODUOR

A set of women in Kisumu have been secretly treating measles using marijuana (bhang), the Sunday Standard has discovered.

The ‘doctors’ who operate from their houses in Manyatta, Kondele and Lolwe, have been receiving steady flow of parents taking their children for the rare form of ‘drug’ whose use was banned by the government.