NANTMP Calls for Approval of Trado-Medical Institutions in Nigeria

The president of the National Association of Nigerian Traditional Medicine Practitioners (NANTMP), Chief Andrew Anyanw, has called on the federal government to approve the establishment of Traditional Medicine Institutes which will aid the promotion of traditional medicine in the country.

He said that if the institutes were situated in all the 774 local government in the country, it will be a boost to the issue of traditional medicine in the nation.

Anyanwu stated that the program will facilitate the distribution of learning and instructional materials to encourage students in the propose institutes, it will also institute scholarship schemes for people who are willing to learn.

He also commended the President Muhammed Buhari for his fight against corruption in the country, while pledging the support of the association in building a good and corruption-free society.

“Buhari is the only Nigerian leader since after Gen Murtala Muhammed to take on corruption. The Nigerian state without Buhari will continue to be a gang land presided over by criminal elements whose preoccupation in power is both wholesale and primitive accumulation.