To boost indigenous medicine and create easy access to the right information, the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) is set to embark on standardisation and e-documentation of practitioners based on products and services peculiar to their environment.
The agency disclosed this at its headquarters in Lagos while marking Prof Martins Emeje’s first year in office as the Director-General (DG).
Speaking on the e-documentation, the DG emphasised the need for proper documentation of Traditional Medical Practitioners (TMP) to help Nigerians make necessary inquiries from the right source.
He said, “Traditional medicine is peculiar to each environment. This means that we must work together with TMPs for the services and products they provide or render to the community to get them into what we call standardisation. This has to do with documentation. We get them properly documented. We have started.
“We have a huge programme that is starting in Lagos State, where we are going to document every TMP, the services they render, the products they provide, and we get them digitalised.”
