Plans Underway For Medical Students To Study Herbal Medicine – Chukwu
Traditional medicine practitioners can now heave a sigh of
relief as their long drawn battle for formal recognition and acceptance
just like orthodox medicine practitioners, has yielded fruits as the
Federal Government, through the ministry of health, has begun the
process of integrating alternative medicine into medical school
curriculum.
This was disclosed last Wednesday by Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu, who said that his ministry was in the process of
integrating traditional medicine practice into medical school
curriculum.
The health minister also announced that following the rising abuse of
codeine syrup – a remedy for cough and other nasal/bronchial
congestions, especially in the northern part of the country, the
ministry was taking drastic steps to regulate use of the drug, stressing
that it would henceforth be treated as a narcotic that should not be
sold over the counter.
Chukwu, however, premised the gobvernment’s veiled official
recognition of herbal medicine on the need for practitioners to go to
medical school to equip themselves with the requisite expert knowledge.
He also promised a level playing ground for all stakeholders in the health sector.
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