China to collaborate with FG on alternative medicine – P.M. News

Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology

Mrs Jian Yu, the Executive Director, Green Centre Academy (GCA), on Thursday said the academy was ready to partner with the Federal Government to boost alternative medicine application in Nigeria.

GCA is a training arm of Green Centre for Alternative Medicine (GCAMP) affiliated with Tianjin and Bejing Universities in China, which entered into collaboration with Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to advance natural medicine in Nigeria.

Yu said this on Thursday in Abuja when she led a team of Chinese investors to pay a courtesy visit to the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu.

She said that the academy was ready to enhance the production of trained and qualified personnel in natural medicine production and practice.

She said this would revamp the natural medicine industry through offering retraining and upgrading courses periodically.

The training which is practically oriented covers basic medical sciences and core natural medicine disciplines.

It is to empower practitioners with abilities to cope with modern day health challenges through utilisation of natural medicine principles.

The academy has facilitated about 20 Nigerian natural medicine practitioners to short time study in Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China for training, she said.

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Yu said that the training was also to bring Chinese traditional/ natural medicine practice to the world acceptable standard.

She said that GCA with Nigerian Natural Development Agency (NNMDA), an agency under the ministry, had organised trainings for practitioners across geopolitical zones of Nigeria in herbal medicine research and development.

She said there was an ongoingtwo years diploma programme in herbal medicine production and alternative medicine practice as a result of collaboration with NNMDA and KAASTU International University of Sir-Lanka

According to her, the benefit of the training to Nigeria is that each student will graduate with a researched and developed herbal formula prepared and ready for NAFDAC listing.

Responding, Onu commended the academy for the effort to improve the Nigerian herbal medicine practitioners.

The minister vowed that the government would give any assistance needed to ensure GCA achieved its aim in Nigeria.

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