National Assembly : Synergy To Develop, Valorise Traditional Medicine

Members of the National Assembly, government officials, researchers and traditional healers have made proposals  to modernise, codify, improve and develop traditional medicine in Cameroon. This was during an information sharing forum organised by the National Assembly with the objective to make traditional medicine an effective complement in the health system in the country.
Speaking while opening the plenary sitting, House Speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril said, “the ultimate objective of this special plenary sitting on traditional is to modernise, codify, improve and develop traditional medicine.” As for the role of Members of the National Assembly, he said, “It, therefore, behoves  on the National Assembly as the People’s representatives  to give impetus and support to the development of traditional medicine. »  Drawing from the current context of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the House  Speaker  said, “The COVID-19 pandemic and its multiferous and devastating health effects has really shown the limitations of modern medicine and thus made it necessary to complement modern medicine with ‘endogenous medicines’ as the President of the Republic, His Excellency Paul Biya opined in his address to the nation on 19 May 2020.” The COVID-19 pandemic context, according to Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, points to the need to recognise the importance of traditional medicine.
For traditional medicine to occupy its rightful place in Cameroon’s health system, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril advised, “We should therefore desist from stigmatising and marginalising traditional medicine as a mere complement to modern conventional medicine. We have to develop a complementary synergy between modern and traditional medicine to increase the medical wellbeing of our population.”  He also advised that confrontation should be shunned ...