A Yaounde-based tradi-practitioner, George Ngwei Gefeh, has won the 2008 prize for the best medicinal product during the National Technology Days which witnessed the exhibition of innovative technologies of all sorts.

Ngwei Gefeh's traditional product tested by scientists in Laboratory for Traditional Medicine in Yaounde was proved and confirmed effective in the treatment and cure of amoebic dysentery and diarrhea.

Ngwei is amongst the few to receive prizes for the most outstanding technological innovations during the National Technology Days celebrated from October 7-9.At a similar event organised by the Ministry of Mines Industries and Technological Development last year in Yaounde, Ngwei also won an award for the most effective cure of gastritis and side pain, through herbal supplement intake.

Prior to the competition, Ngwei said he had worked on those portions enormously to come out with most common way of treating and curing the illnesses which seem to be a nightmare and a source of trauma to most Cameroonians.

The authenticity and power of the traditional medicines, he said, is a matter of recommendation of experts and traditional scientists testing each of the drugs in the laboratory.

Other products exhibited by Ngwei include traditional drugs for the treatment of malaria and yellow fever, stomach pains, sterility, toothache, diabetes, blood shortage, piles, palpitation and cough.

Other inventions such as distribution stands were also on exhibition. According to its inventor, 32-year-old Dorothy Selamo, the stand is made of a storage facility for fruit and garri juices.

The innovation has advantage over conventional flasks and refrigerators in that it stores food items and maintains their temperatures."It is isothermic, ecological and mobile, and can store both cold and warm food items" she maintained.

The new device, which takes a week to build is environment-friendly and does not use electrical energy and gives users the advantages of mobile sales of basic products, which she had also worked elaborately upon.

One of her products, Garri Light Kit, comprises a quantity of garri, sugar and parched groundnuts packaged in one for easy consumption by students and low-income earners. Another Garri Fruit Juice consists of garri, juices of guava, orange or pineapple confined in a small container for better vitamins intake.

The Post also learnt that these products have each undergone the bacteriological test at the Centre Pasteur du Cameroon in Yaounde and proved harmless but effective.

As an agro-alimentary transformation expert, Selamo began in 2002 PROMOTE in Yaounde where she won the best prize for the most outstanding decorated, creative and innovative stand.