Chiira

General
1

A while back I came across this issue, when a friend confided in me that her kid was ill and she couldn’t take her to hosi because it’s chiira and if the child is injected she will die. So she opted to go to a native doctor. The problem cleared but I was disappointed that as a believer she’d go to a native doctor.

Upon interrogating her further, she told me in their culture kids die if the parents have extra marital affairs then come back to hold the baby. I even know a gentleman who won sole custody of his son by telling the children court that his son almost died after sharing a bed with his baby momma and her new lover.

Can someone from Western, Nyanza and Kale land explain what Exactly is this chiira thing coz sisi watu wa mountains hautuilewi.

2

You know that people of Western, Nyanza and Kale have completely different cultures. In fact Western people are closer to you mountain people than both Nyanza people and Kales. And Nyanza Luo people DNA is closer to white men than it is to their Kisii counterparts. So hiyo Chiira will not be common to them. And its the first time I have heard of it.

3

I don’t know if it’s the same as the luo chira

But there is one in maragoli called “TZICHIRA”

it’s a condition that affects the baby when either or both partners are cheating while the baby is breastfeeding

Conventional medicine doesn’t help
But it’s not necessarily “treated” by mganga

Kuna herbs wamama wanajua ambazo mtoto hupewa

When u cheat,don’t touch your baby

4

A 5 month baby was taken to Gertrude’s Children hospital to correct a cleft lip and ended up dead. In terms of Medicare if the best is 10 I would give Kenya 3. I feel like you stand equal chances of getting better to go to a hospital or to Makini Herbal Clinic. Actually I think it’s better to go to a herbal clinic because they are not going to inject anything in your veins.

5

That’s a little bit harsh on our health institutions…but sometimes I wonder,herbs used to work and very effectively

Why did we abandon them?

6

One word. Superstition.

7

I was giving it a global rank. I lost a relative because a doctor was treating her for malaria but she has typhoid.
Herbal clinics bado ziko tu ni vile people don’t believe in them no more.

8

You should have sued if it’s a private hospital

My uncle died in 2013 at Nairobi west hospital

He was to undergo a surgery but sijui alikula before surgery Na akanyongwa Na Chakula akiwa surgery…something like that

My aunt aliomboleza,then akaambiwa she should sue

I don’t know hosi ilipata fununu aje

Those wahindi’s came all the way to kakamega to “mourn with us”

My auntie akapewa 2M akachizi

Aka change line ya simu

Hakutaka kusikia mambo ya Ku sue tena despite kituo cha sheria offering to pay for her legal fees

9

From experience,Chira is real in Luo land. My cousin’s kid died juu the guy alikuwa anakula kunguru then akifika kwa nyumba anashika mtoto bila kuoga. Shit got real mtoi akaanza kuwa msick with funny funny symptoms even the doctors walishindwa kuexplain.