NNMDA underscores standardised traditional medicines
Nigerian Natural Medicine Development Agency (NNMDA) has called for the standardisation of traditional medicines and its teaching in schools. The agency’s Director-General, Prof Martins Emeje, made the call during a media parley organised to induct members of the media as ‘Journalists for Traditional Medicines’.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the virtual media parley was themed, “The Media as Natural Medicine Ambassadors’’. Emeje said 80 per cent of traditional medicines were highly effective in addressing health challenges, without pronounced side effects.
He noted that allopathic medicine and its composition were being taught in Nigerian schools, stressing that the same pride of place should be accorded traditional medicines.
The DG discredited some claims that traditional medicines did not have dosage, adding that they were already applying nanotechnology to their composition.
“We are in an era where we are applying nanotechnology to traditional medicine and we shall be reinforcing our research and development models”.
“The same way you enrol in school to learn pharmacy, we can as well learn traditional medicines in school, and it does not necessarily need to be taught by a professor with degrees,” he said.
Emeje emphasised that Nigerians should be proud of their roots, adding that traditional medicines were sustained in the past, hence the need for it to be standardised.
He recalled that the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) recently accredited NNMDA as the awarding body for National Skills Qualification in Traditional Medicine in the country.
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