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\u2026.Promises To\u00a0Address Their Complaints<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0By Innocent Osuoha.<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 The Hon Commissioner for Science, Technology, Innovation and Engineering Services,Imo State, Rt. Hon. Engr. Ikenna Elezieanya has charged\u00a0 members of South East Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association (SETRAMPA), Imo State Chapter, to apply scientific and innovative measures in the practice of traditional medicine.<\/p>\n
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Engr Elezieanya who gave the charge in his office at the State Secretariat Complex when the group paid him a courtesy call\u00a0 emphasised that days were gone when traditional medicine was overlooked and considered “fetish” owing to the fact that it did not pass through scientific research.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0The Commissioner averred that traditional medicine was all about natural herbs, which according to him, is equally effective in healthcare delivery if given the necessary scientific\/innovative measures.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 He insisted that traditional medicine needed to be given a boost as it is in some developed countries like India where they have most of their traditional medicine in capsules and tablets as well as in other forms with regulatory measures of administration and charged them to follow suit.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Commissioner Elezieanya insisted that traditional medicine has come to stay in healthcare delivery, but cannot go far if the\u00a0 scientific research and innovative measures were neglected, hence the need to put them in place for quality healthcare.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 He encouraged the group to partner government agencies as their integration into science and technology ministry is geared towards the promotion of research and development efforts in traditional medicine which is challenged by the need for scientific explanation for the administration and efficacy of herbal products in the management of human health.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 He then promised to look into their\u00a0 complaint in the area of their domiciled status between his Ministry and that of Health and commended them for their visit.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 Earlier in his presentation, the Chairman of SETRAMPA, Imo State Chapter, Chief Dr. Ohanaja Thomas, who led the delegation, said they came to identify with the Ministry and intimate the Commissioner of their aims and activities.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Chief Ohanaja said that the association (SETRAMPA) was duly inaugurated by Senator Hope Uzodimmma’s administration in 2020 and\u00a0 domiciled with Ministry of Science and Technology , stating that the former association , National Association of Nigerian Traditional Medicine Practitioners (NANTIMP), a national umbrella that housed all the Traditional Medicine Practitioners in Nigeria under health ministry then was\u00a0 dissolved at the National level by the Board of Trustee of the association at Abuja and directed that Traditional Medicine Practitioners be housed by Science and Technology\u00a0 Ministry in order to give room for scientific research and innovative measures which the process lacks abinitio.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Dr Ohanaja disclosed that they were directed\u00a0 to register in their different zones which\u00a0 gave rise to SETRAMPA at South East Zone with headquarters in\u00a0 Abia State and decried that some of the traditional practitioners who refused to comply with this directive, hide under their old\u00a0 umbrella (NANTIMP), domiciled with\u00a0 Ministry of health to exhibit their products which lack scientific research.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0He equally stressed that it would be odd to exempt Imo State\u00a0 from the national\/zonal umbrella of SETRAMPA\u00a0 which housed the entire States in South East and urged the Commissioner to use his good\u00a0 offices to intervene by allowing\u00a0 them remain with Science and Technology Ministry where others belong.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0The SETRAMPA also pleaded\u00a0 that waiver be granted them to organize seminars\/workshop in the State in line with their national mandate, as well as construction of signage for identification\/direction as it is in other States and thanked the Hon. Commissioner and his team for their warm reception.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Present on the occasion were the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dcons. Mrs. Catherine Ikeagwu, Dr. Innocent Nnamdi, the Secretary of the association and Zonal Chairmen of SETRAMPA from the three senatorial district of Imo State and Mrs Joy Ugorji the Principal Information Officer of the Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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