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Reactions of Traditional Healer

“I feel great happiness and contentment about the current wave of recognition of African traditional medicine and that the biggest world body on health, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is celebrating it and encouraging government for its inclusion in national health plans. Such collaboration between Western and Traditional medicine, I can say, has been long overdue if we consider the fruitful results and immense benefits that can and should flow from it. So I congratulate the WHO and all...

Renowned Traditional Healer in Town

Alhagie Sidibeh, a renowned traditional healer, is currentlyin the country engaged in the treatment of various diseases using of puretraditional herbs.Located at Fatou Camara’s compound near the Ebo town market,Alhagie Sidibeh is a specialist in traditional healing and has for many yearscured a good number of people. Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Point, Mr. Sidibeh noted that he cures eye problems of anykind, blindness, cataracts, yellow fever, impotency, piles, stomach-ache,...

Role of Traditional Medicine in Modern Society

It was interesting and enlightening to hear from a traditional healer in The Gambia, Serign Wagne, expound on the theme of traditional medicine in an interview arranged with this paper. From generation to generation man’s condition of health and illness has become more and more complex, as the world itself has become more complex in its set-up, lifestyle and especially its eating habits. Disease and illness are multiplying, and their types and strains almost outpace medical science and...

CONGO: Traditional medicine to improve healthcare

The government of the Republic of Congo is implementing a public health strategy that includes traditional herbal cures to complement conventional medicine, in a bid to ensure wider availability of healthcare. Congolese traditional medicine shall from now on be considered in order to make its use better organised and more effective, said Clestine Tchissambou Bayonne, permanent secretary in the ministry of health, social affairs and family. Traditional medicines currently in use must lend...