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Introduce Bachelor of Science for Herbal Medicine, Mamora urges Varsities

The Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, has called on Nigerian universities to introduce Bachelor of Science degree programme in traditional medicine for better healthcare delivery.

Made this call at the 2019 African Traditional Medicine Day in Abuja

Mamora made the call at a news conference commemorating the 2019 African Traditional Medicine Day in Abuja on Friday.

African Traditional Medicine day is celebrated on August 31 annually.

The theme for the 2019 event was, “Integrating Traditional Medicine in Health Sciences Curricular in the African Region.”

He appealed to Nigerian universities to incorporate modules of herbal medicine in their curricular of health sciences, adding that this could be achieved with support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.

The minister also unveiled the ministry’s report on curriculum development for the training of herbal medical practitioners and medical schools.

He urged agencies and departments working on traditional medicine in the country to work together for the development of the sector.

He said the ultimate goal of government in the sector was to derive maximum economic benefits from traditional medicine like China, India and other countries.

State governments should establish tradomedical departments to complement departments of Medicine

The minister urged state governments and the Federal Capital Territory to establish traditional medicine departments for healthcare development.

Mamora suggested that such department should be complementary to medicine department to provide opportunities for rapid development and integration of traditional medicine into the healthcare delivery system.

A bill underway

He said the ministry was working on a traditional and complementary medicine bill to be submitted to the executive for approval and forwarding to the National Assembly for passage.

NUC promises to collaborate with the Health Ministry on the need to have herbal degrees

The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Mr. Abubakar Rashid, said the commission would collaborate with the ministry to improve the knowledge of undergraduates of health sciences on traditional medicine.

Initiate policies to guard our intellectual property rights, rep of tradomedical practitioners solicits

Representative of Nigeria Traditional Medicine Practitioners, Mr. Loveth Iwuzu, appealed to government to initiate policy to guard the intellectual property rights of the traditional medicine practitioners.

Representative of Global Health Body Speaks

In his remark, Dr. Clement Peter, Officer in Charge of World Health Organisation, Nigeria, restated the commitment of the organisation to support the federal government to integrate traditional medicine into national health system.

Source: https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/08/30/introduce-bachelor-of-science-for-herbal-medicine-mamora-urges-varsities/?amp

interviewer:what did u study in school
Me:i have a bsc in native doctor.lol

Ofirmee:
And what do we get to call the graduates I wonder �? It's not that bad anyway. Hi, Nice to meet you, I'm a tradomedical pratictioner sounds more interesting and intriguing.

a doctor is a doctor whether ibile trado medical doctor or the conventional Western doctor

They have come again. Nigeria is not well structured for this yet. This aspect needs reserach,research and more research which we all know is not done in our country. If this is done,the practice of medicine in Nigeria would be bastardized to an irredeemable state.
We have not even started exploring and making breakthrough in pharmaceutical drugs and medical practices that are perpetually hindered by myriads of challenges ranging from lack of proper funding by the govt, strikes by workers ,massive corruption and the list is endless. Yet, they are talking abt Bsc in trado medicine. It could be likened to saying Nigeria should go into Nuclear energy to generate electricity as was suggested some years ago despite knowing the consequences should things go wrong .we are yet to get our grasp on safer and more attainable way of electricity generation they were bringing up Nuclear energy.
Let's move at our own pace. Even the proposed Bsc trado medical never start o yet we see and hear Dr dis and dat advertising using public address systems on how they can cure all diseases with same drug while going to work.
People just talk without putting / consedring some other factors in place. It can also be likened to saying let's start using electric cars, robots as police personel, electric trains etc...@ dis stage of our development
We are gradually shifting towards total Apocalypse in the health sector. They should also create degrees for road side mechanics and call them engineers.
After approving Bsc for them now, they will come again in some few years time and say " oh ! Let's make it masters and PhD" ...
No be naija we dey

dangotesmummy:
a doctor is a doctor whether ibile trado medical doctor or the conventional Western doctor

Can u see my point.??

Cantonese:
Why do some particular people in this country with long marks on their faces always like things to do with juju? Less than one week and this man from among the people that I mentioned wants juju to be introduced into universities? Everywhere juju, juju, juju, shrine, agbo. Na waoh.

Mechionu!
While growing up in the city,Except para for headache,My father gave us the neem leaf drink Once in a while.I make it bold to say that not for one day did any of us fall sick.Even now that we r grown,we can Go for a yr without falling sick and abum Onye igbo.All pure herbs from igboland.

God gave us this treees As food and herb.Dont let anybody brainwash You into Thinking ur own is bad.

Tolexander:
More like a pure Pharmacognosy

Pharmacognosy is too sophisticated for a developing state like ours , thats why few institutions offers it here because of the cost of actual research and other related stuffs. Tradomedicine/Herbal medicine will help us utilize our local technique and improve all this herbs medicine sellers efficacy .

This might also solve the problem of dosage in Herbs and repackage and drug - drug interaction.

Ofirmee:
And what do we get to call the graduates I wonder �? It's not that bad anyway. Hi, Nice to meet you, I'm a tradomedical pratictioner sounds more interesting and intriguing.

Its still a medical practitional. Tradomedicine is still under medicine.

glink2015:


I think there's different btw plant science and herbal medicine...

There is different btw Medical science and medicine and surgery...

So, let's be specific in our dealing...

Yes there is a difference but Dept of Plant Science has in it Ethnobotany which entails the study of importance of plants in which Herbal medicine is a juicy area of study because of the emergence of herbs medicine dealer in the country.

Good news for Iya Bilikisu. Agbo Jedi is about to international.

martowskin1:


What is the difference between plant science and botany

Plant Science is the same as Botany.

Cantonese:
Why do some particular people in this country with long marks on their faces always like things to do with juju? Less than one week and this man from among the people that I mentioned wants juju to be introduced into universities? Everywhere juju, juju, juju, shrine, agbo. Na waoh.

Do you even have sense at all. Just look at what a black man wrote

banio:


Overdose of herbal medicine damages kidney, liver and other internal organs. It kills within two weeks

I think we need to be guided. Have you taken time to look at the dangers and side effects of the pharmaceuticals drugs such as panadaol and cipro. And can you kindly give us one herbal medicine that will damage kidney,!iver and other internal organs. We grew up meeting our grand parents in 70s and 80s, I can boldly tell you that none of them died of organ damages. Anything you abuse definitely there will be repercussions.

I believe it is time we go back to nature, nature have solutions to all our health challenges don't forget this is what the creator gave us. Nature is wholistic and herbal medicine is equally wholistic.

What we call western medicine is western medicine, it means it comes from the west. Let us Alps look at Nigeria medicine, take you move across Nigeria you will see a lot of herbal solutions that the different tribes use. There is nothing wrong if the universities and polytechnics regulatory bodies such as nuc and nbte will harmonize and turn it into a course after all this is our strength.
Many of us in this forum will agree that when it comes to bone bending, we have our local people that are far that the best western doctors but is their any of tertiary institutions offering that. NO.

datola:
Not bad but different herbal medicine will be offered by universities according to their 'tribe'

Not necessarily. You can have a synthesized course called Alternative Medicine. I'd even advocated the inclusion of some Asian stuff, especially Ayurveda. Ofr course, each department can include some things that are specific to local tribes in the content but everything would have to be approved by a central regulatory body to avoid the dissemination of harmful practices.

banio:


Overdose of herbal medicine damages kidney, liver and other internal organs. It kills within two weeks

The key word here is overdose. Of any medication.

prigoz:
The call is good but can they scientifically prove it. How can adult take the Same quantity of herbal medication with a child. So this is where the problem lies

Many herbal medicine practitioners have since gone beyond the no-dose era. Stop buying on the streets. There's even herbal medicine now being sold on Amazon, complete with dose and everything.

MrPresident1:
Tinubu remove this one from senate and put remi baby there

Lie He Voluntarily decided to leave.

Good proposal

Cantonese:
Why do some particular people in this country with long marks on their faces always like things to do with juju? Less than one week and this man from among the people that I mentioned wants juju to be introduced into universities? Everywhere juju, juju, juju, shrine, agbo. Na waoh.

Lol... Give up already. You are not making sense.

You mean BSc in Agbology or agbocine?