Austin Ogwuda
20 November 2008
Delta State government is organising a training workshop for traditional medicine practitioners, even as the ongoing free rural health scheme which kicked off last week has witnessed over 20 surgical operations undertaken by a team of doctors.
Vanguard gathered that no fewer than 250 traditional medicine practitioners across the state would be at the six-day training workshop commencing on the first of next month.
Speaking to our reporter in Asaba, the Consultant engaged to package the training, Mr. Fidelis Olisa said the training "is aimed at preparing the practitioners to prepare their products to meet the standard of the global traditional medicine trade and would be held in each of the three senatorial zones of the state".
The programme oraganised by Human Assets Centre Lagos in collaboration witht he Delta Traditional Medicine Board which has its theme 'Standardizaton and preservaton of traditional medicine practice in Nigeria' is expected to draw resource persons from the Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency with professors of Biotechnology from University of Lagos and University of Benin delivering lectures.
Meanwhile, an Ophthalmologist and Director in the State Ministry of Health Dr. Gloria Iferife said that over twenty various surgical operations have been undertaken within the first three days of the free rural health scheme.
She told reporters that the programme was well packaged to cater for all degree of operations. The exercise is still ongoing with the team of doctors moving from one local government health centre to the other.
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