The influx of patients into Samunge village in Loliondo has plunged the little village into a crisis as the area has been overwhelmed by large crowds of people and cannot cope with the estimated  more than six thousand people that flock the village on a daily basis from all over Tanzania and the neighbouring  countries. To forestall possible outbreak of communicable diseases due to the lack of sanitary facilities in the village, the government of Tanzania has been compelled to suspend the treatment and cure of chronic diseases by the retired pastor of the evangelical Lutheran church, who claims to have divine powers to heal.

Ambilikile  Masapila, the retired clergy shot to fame with his claim of curing Aids and other chronic diseases that has fired up the imagination of the long suffering patients. The news of the retired pastor cum herbalist have been spreading like wildfire in dry season, before the suspension he was expecting to receive patients from Middle East, India and China. Trying to justify the suspension, Tanzania’s minister of health Dr. Haji Mponda said something to the effect that the government  is trying  to put up sanitary facilities in the village and enhance security in the area. Read the rest of this entry »