urage traditional remedies. What informed that decision?
In the administration of a particular remedy or a drug, you are not just looking at the side effects, the side effects may be little, but what you look at are whether the therapeutic advantages outweigh the side effects, because every drug is a potential poison. It depends on who is getting it and under what circumstances.
Two, we are looking at establishing the Institute of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The third thing is that we are looking at the possibility of allowing the traditional medicine ward to exist alongside western medicine ward so that within the same setting of a building you can have them co-exist as it is being done in some countries, even in Ghana. So, those are the kinds of things we are looking at and we can then begin to reap the benefits of our own home-grown remedies.
One of such challenges we are to address is the issue of what we call intellectual property right. A situation where they will be sure that whatever we have will be protected, not something that someone will go behind through the backdoor and and claim its ownership. That is very critical. And the issue of funding is also there.
There are several instances where people died as a result of the fear that every illness is COVID-19 and therefore they could not get assistance. Would you say that the government did enough through the National Orientation Agency as regards sensitisation of the public?
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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