Alternate medicine centres for 17 hospitals, Friday, July 17, 2011, pg 46



The Ministry of Health is establishing alternative medicine centers at 17 hospitals in the country.
The centres, which would be housed by the Korle Bu and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospitals and all regional hospitals in the country would be manned by graduates of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology  herbal medicine programme.
The Deputy Minister of Health, Mr Rojo Mettle-Nunoo made this known as the swearing-in of Executive Council of the Premier International School of Homeopathy and Alternative Medicine (PISHAM).
Members of the Council in a group photograph with the Deputy Health Minister, Mr Rojo Mettle-Nunoo
The school is  a joint initiative with international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Homeopath Without Borders and the Ghana Homeopathy Project in the United Kingdom.
The 10-member council led by Mr James Agboada is expected to promote homeopathy in Ghana through the strengthening of the school.
Homeopathy is a system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself.
Although widely accepted in the West, homeopathy is at its nascent stage in Ghana.
Establish in March 2010, the school is the first of its kind in the country and aims at making homeopathy a central part of treatment in Ghana.
Mr Mettle-Nunoo said orthodox medicine had no solution to all ailment hence being able to build the capacity of alternative medicine practitioners would go a long way towards strengthening the health sector.
“It is a known fact that chemicals used in producing orthodox medicine have side effects, therefore, being able to promote health interventions that reduce side effects is ideal,” he stated.
The Deputy Minister said most herbal medicines work effectively in some instances compared to orthodox medicines.
The Council Chairman, Mr Agboada, noted that the school was the beginning of avenues to project homeopathy as alternative medicine and pledge the board’s commitment to ensure that the school upheld high ethical standards.
The Principal of the School, Mr Julius Berdie, said the school which is the first of its kind in the country would contribute to ensuring that only qualified people practiced homeopathy in Ghana.
He commended the Ministry of Health for creating the environment to promote other medical services other orthodox medicine in the country.




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