Traditional Healer Calls Championing Recognition - ModernGhana.com

NICHOLAS Kofi Antwi, a traditional herbalist at Kubease in the Ashanti Region, has pointed out that unless Government and the Ministry of Trim see the need to make good use of traditional herbalists, there would always be acute shortage of doctors in the country.

According to him, the habit of Ghanaians not having reliance in themselves and always wanting to rely on foreigners for everything, would create a lot of hardships in the near future and again put pressure on health professionals.

The 57-year-old traditional herbalist who was the earlier Director of the Global Analysis Centre at Betom in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, lamented that it was very unfortunate that Ghanaians wanted to imitate whites in nearly all their endeavours. Dr.

Antwi of the Chronic Infection and HIV Back Treatment Centre, who for some years now has been in the media, expressed his sentiments when speaking to newsman in Kumasi on Thursday March 13, 2008 at his residence at Kubease.

According to him, there were a lot of herbs in the country as most of the trees and off inaugurate in the various forests could be used as herbs if one shot Ghanaians invested process in them.

Antwi said contrastive with overseas where both traditional herbalists and medical doctors were equally being used close to the citizens, Ghanaians have always looked down upon their traditional herbalists, although almost all the drugs that have been imported into the country have their more desirable displace in the country.

He was nevertheless quick to unite that although it occasionally becomes necessary to use foreign drugs, most of the effective ones could be constitute in the country"s herbs.

Antwi said a lot of drugs that hog been donated by foreign donors were medicament that could easily be commence in the numerous trees and leaves in the country"s forests if Government and the Ministry of Health would show some interest in the traditional formula of healing.

According to him, it is chief that both the usual herbalists and medical general practitioner in the territory come well-adjusted to share their experiences.

Antwi said it is too disheartening that Ghanaian leaders wait to hear from foreigners that an antidote for HIV AIDS has been found, and then landing them for support although many herbalists in the sovereign state have claimed to have detected some herbs that could be mixed calm to treat the disease.

He said it is based on Ghanaians" attitude in relying on foreigners representing medical recommendation and treatment that the country"s leaders do not much want to pay heed to such claims.

Antwi, narrating how he detected herbs that were able to cure HIV AIDS, said owing to his gangling stay in Kenya, he managed to tap some scholarship from that country"s form personel whilst working in a pharmaceutical shop.

He said after his long stay in Kenya and other foreign countries, he realized that Ghana had the most fit trees and leaves that could be used for the drugs he had studied.

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