The Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the Ogun State Alternative Medicine Board to strengthen regulation, promote safe healthcare practices and preserve traditional medicine knowledge.
The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board
Babatunde Adele, said this on Lagos Island, while receiving a delegation from Ogun State
on a working visit to understudy the agency’s operations.
Adele said the Board, established in 1980, had registered 9,645 active traditional medicine practitioners, while strengthening their capacity through regular training, introducing a code of conduct and intensifying efforts to check unregulated practice.
He also highlighted the establishment of a botanical garden in Epe, plans to open more traditional medicine clinics and laboratories, and the creation of zonal offices to improve access to the Board’s services.
Adele reaffirmed the Board’s commitment to standardising, documenting, modernising and protecting traditional medicine through research, collaboration and effective regulation.
Earlier, the Executive Secretary and Registrar of the Ogun State Alternative Medicine Board, Doctor Charles Erinle, commended the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board for its achievements, noting that the visit was aimed at understudying its operations, gaining insights, fostering collaboration and adopting best practices to strengthen traditional medicine regulation in Ogun State.
Also earlier in his remark, the former Board member of the Lagos Traditional Medicine Board and Chief Executive Officer/Director, Royal Holistic College of Traditional Medicine, Lagos, Alhaji Tajudeen Olusesi, said the Lagos Traditional Medicine Board has encouraged and promoted the establishment of model service in traditional medicine such as institutions, clinics, botanical gardens, herbal centers and drug manufacturing.
Olusesi added that owing to the inactivity of several practitioners, the agency had come up with a policy of data system, registration/renewable of licences as a benchmark of determining active practitioners.
Also in his vote of thanks, Mrs Adu Olufunke, a member of the delegation from Alternative Medicine Board, Abeokuta, expressed appreciation to their host, Lagos Traditional Medicine Board, especially the entire management and members of the team for their warm reception and openness during their visit.
She assured that the team was overwhelmed with what they heard and learned from their host and assured that the visiting team would not hesitate to put into practice all that was learnt.
