The Federal Ministry of Health has advised traditional medicine practitioners to work as a team, to improve the health care delivery system in Nigeria.
The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnibe Mamora gave the advice in Abuja, at the opening of the 2019 African Traditional Medicine Day, organised by the African Traditional Medicine Department of the Ministry of Health.
The three-day event is expected to promote and exhibit traditional herbal practitioners in Nigeria, and their products to the world, with the theme: “Integration of Traditional Medicine in the Curricular of Health Sciences Students in Universities in the African Region.”
Mamora said there was the need to close the gap between traditional practices and change in attitude, required for an effective team, to achieve such a great ambition for Nigeria.
In her address of welcome, Director, Traditional Medicine Department in the Ministry, Zainab Shariff said that the decision to observe the Day followed the adoption in two thousand, of a resolution on promoting the role of traditional medicine in the health systems by the region’s ministers.mO�=.|�a
