Early years our government run hospitals were of exceptionally high calibre with doctors and equipment, actually never bothered with private...., with medical insurance appearing and change, would not touch the government hospitals, also no say in the matter the insurance decides which you can use.
Hope implant is a great success!
Money talks if you have it, poor folk turn to traditional healers many do not trust state run hospitals, don't blame them!
Sangoma traditional healers also charge or trade.
distinction between the ancestrally designated diviner or mediator lsangoma, and the herbalist or doctor inyanga who works primarily with herbs.
Herbal side of healing most interesting as they rely on plants found locally.
Plants have offered many medicinal values, people of the land found years ago.