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| AARE,ALH.DR.ABDUFATAI YUSUF,PRESIDENT,PHYTO-THERAPISTS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA[PAN] & CHAIRMAN/CEO/MEDICAL DIRECTOR,OKOOLOYUN WORLDWIDE/DE-FAYUS INTERNATIONAL |
The Multiple Award
Winning Herbal Lord and President of the Phyto-therapists Association of
Nigeria[PAN],Aare Dr.FATAI YUSUF OKOOLOYUN Worldwide has called on the 15 AAARE
ONA KAKANFO OF YORUBALAND,DR GANI ADAMAS to catalyzed the official endorsement
of the establishment of the Department of Traditional Medicine and Therapy in
all government Hospitals and Schools.
OKOOLOYUN made the charge when he led other Executives and
members of the Phytotherapists to the Lagos residence of the 15th Aare Ona
Kakanfo in his Lagos home recently.
The Herbal Practitioners under the umbrella body,
Physiootherapists Association of Nigeria[PAN] with Oko Oloyun as the president
while another Lagos City Herbalist, Alhaji Kolaq as the national leader
appealed to the Aare Adams to use all his contacts and clouts to accelerate the
endorsement of the usage of herbal medicine.
Speaking on behalf of the Herbal Practitioners, Okooloyun
implored the Aare Ona Kakanfo designate to use his office as a foremost
promoter of the Yoruba tradition to ensure that department for the Yoruba
traditional medicine and herbal healings are created in government hospitals
and institutions of higher learning.
He said Botany and Pharmaceutical Students are usually sent
to his clinic for industrial attachment and believes the partnership
arrangement should be taken a step further with the establishment of a
department for herbal and traditional cure in government hospitals.
They said there are instances where difficulties in
childbirth would be addressed with mere incantation which can only be useful if
there is no problem of proximity.
They claimed that there have been life-threatening medical
situations that defiled Western medicine treatment but got cured through
traditional means.
On the occasion, the practitioners named Adams as the Patron of
their body,while Adams thanked them for their support.
He urged them to
maintain a higher standard of dispensing their medication, stressing that
because there have been results, giving their trade the kind of government
recognition it deserves should not be a problem.
He said in Cuba and Brazil, both traditional and Western
medical practices are accorded equal recognition.
He lamented the rate at which people distance themselves
from tradition and herbs whereas they use oil and wear cloth among others
things made from plant.
