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02 May 2008, 04:20
allAfrica.com: Ghana: Herbalist Censure Gov't of Not Supporting Traditional Prescription (Page 1 of 1)
He named the unfulfilled solemn word of honour as, the integration of traditional herbalists into the country's health sector, and the provision of adjustment facilities, to house their patients. Mr. Mahama was interacting with some journalists, at his residence at Korkobeng.
The dream of the interaction was to broaden the knowledge of the media practitioners, on issues affecting standard herbalists. He observed that non-native medicine had failed miserably, in the areas of disease prevention, and the management of the many new and chronic illnesses, currently annihilating Ghanaians.
Mahama, therefore, called on the government to build traditional medicine, an alternate medicine to foreign ones, to help fight diseases.
Currently, treatment of chronic diseases, gives a reason for for about 85% of the civic healthcare bill. This is payable to the fact that Ghana spends almost nothing, to act towards the occasion of inveterate diseases, before they degenerate into major illnesses.
Mahama added his voice to the Health Minister's clarion call, on Ghanaians to eat foods of their biological adaptation. This includes fruits and vegetables, as well as unprepared food, to guidance the body functions effectively.
Mahama, who deal with all kind of diseases, and is a bone-setter, including break and dislocations, passionately appealed to the government, and other benevolent organizations, to provide him with a befitting accommodation, to accomodate the patients who troop from all piece of the country, to his clinic to seek medication.
Mahama hinted that he inherited the traditional medicine from his great grandparents, when he was about five years old, adding because of that he could not appear at school. When asked whether he was training some people, to take on from him, when he is demised, he answered in the affirmative.
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