Gov Ganduje Says Trado-medical Practice Should Be Sanitized and Promises to Support
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has urged traditional and alternative medicine practitioners to pay more attention to research and development in order to regularize their profession.
In addition, Governor Ganduje advised them to update their knowledge of diseases and medicament in order to provide remedies for emerging health challenges in the society.
He
made the assertion during a meeting with Traditional Medicine
Practitioners in the state on Tuesday, appealing to them to work hand in
hand with the public health officials to safeguard the well-being of the
people.
“I want to call upon you to
cooperate with health officials and regulatory bodies to ensure not only
the efficacy but also proper administration of herbs and other
medicinal consumables”, the governor stressed.
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Dr. Ganduje also called upon them to fish out
quacks in their midst, saying activities of such dubious elements are
adversely affecting their institutional integrity. He also stated that
it is not in their best interest to bicker over immaterial things, as
members of the same association.
He
maintained that his government decided to create office of Special
Adviser to Governor on Traditional medicine so as help in sanitizing
their profession, assuring that some of their members would be sponsored
to participate in the forthcoming International Conference on
Traditional Medicine to be organized by Bayero University Kano in
October this year.
On his part, the Special
Adviser to the Governor on Alternative Medicine, Malam Haruna Muhammad
Sani Ibn Sina said the summit, which is the first of its kind in the
history of the state is aimed at streamlining the activities of
herbalists, traditional medicine proprietors and “Islamic Chemists” for
better service delivery.
He maintained that
the state government intends to support them to operate in line with
available best practices and to look into avenues where their expertise
could complement the services of modern medical practitioners, in
serving humanity.
In their separate
speeches, the state Commissioner of health, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Getso and
a lecturer with Bayero University, Kano, Dr. Muhammad Tahar Adam, urged
the practitioners to embrace government regulatory policies on
traditional/alternative medicine and to work with the government to
ensure coordination and regularization of their activities.
Press Secretary
to the Exec. Gov.,
Kano state,
4/5/2015
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