Sodiq Ojuroungbe The Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency has initiated an e-documentation programme tailored specifically for Traditional Medicine Practitioners to promote traditional medicine and facilitate quick access to vital information. The agency’s Director General, Prof Martins Emeje, said the initiative is expected to improve traditional medicine’s integration into the larger healthcare system as well as maintain Nigeria’s rich legacy of traditional medicine. Speaking at an event in Lagos, Emeje said there is a need to have proper documentation of traditional medicine to help Nigerians make necessary choices and inquiries.
He said, “Traditional medicine is peculiar to each environment and this means that our job and responsibility is to work together with the traditional medical practitioners to render services to communities through standardisation. “We have a programme starting in Lagos State where we are going to document every traditional medical practitioner, the services they render, and products they provide, as well as digitalised such so that from anywhere in the world when you want to have information or access to any traditional medical practitioner, you can do it on the touch of a button.” Emeje highlighted the importance of TMP and how their knowledge of ingenious medicine is vital to the growth of natural medicine in the country.
“We depend on the knowledge of these traditional medical practitioners, the folkloric knowledge they pr.
