The Minister of Health, Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, has inaugurated a 12-member Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC) at the auditorium of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Accra.
The formation and the inauguration of the council had been in limbo since 2000.
The members are Dr Victor Agyemang, Director of FORIG, CSIR; Dr Theophilus Corquaye Fleischer, Head of the Department of Herbal Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, KNUST; Mrs Martha Gyansah Lutterodt, GNDP; Prof. Laud Nii Kenneth Aryeetey Okine, Director, CSRPM; Agya Kwaku Appiah, President, GHAFTRAM, and Nana Adjei Frimpong, a herbalist.
The rest are Mrs Margaret Anderson, a herbalist; Nana Kwadwo Obiri, a herbalist; Dr Emmanuel Nunyaku Mensah, a medical consultant; Mr Stephen K. Opuni, Chief Executive, FDB; Mr Francis K. Hlortsi Akakpo, Registrar, TMPC, and Peter Arhin, Director, TAM, MOH.
In his inaugural address, Dr Kunbuor expressed the need for all traditional medicine practitioners to be duly registered and their activities monitored.
He also called for scientific approach to the preparation, administration and dosage of traditional medicinal preparations to patients.
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