Capacity Building: Tradi-practitioners Schooled On Basic Pharmacology
They were trained for five days by the National Committee for Technology Development on observing hygiene standards and better ways of packaging their drugs to obtain certification.
Some 30 traditional health practitioners have been trained on basic pharmacology for five days by the National Committee for Technology and Development (CNDT) of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation. The Secretary General of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Rebecca Madeleine Ebelle Etame presided at the closing ceremony, Friday July 14, 2017, in Yaounde.
For five days, experts trained the workshop participants on how to prepare their drugs under hygienic conditions and properly package them so that it could be capable of obtaining an authorization for commercialization delivered by the Special Commission of Phytomedicine and Alternative Therapeutic Technics of the Ministry of Public Health. The traditional health practitioners were also introduced to basic pharmacology, botany and ecology as well as extraction of active ingredients from raw materials. Besides learning first aid technics, the participants were also drilled on ethics of the practice of traditional medicine and health regulations.
According to Permanent Secretary of CNDT, Dr. Likiby-Boubakar, the training was organized against the backdrop of the phenomenon whereby traditional drugs are package haph...
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