Natural Medicine Teaching Hospital takes off in Enugu
Arrangements have been completed for the formal resumption of academic activities at the Natural Medicine Teaching Hospital (NMTH), Ugwogo Nike, Enugu state.
Prof. Edmund Agbo, who is the promoter of the maiden hospital, disclosed this to journalists while conducting them round the facilities of the institution, said that the first batch of students would start studies in September, this year.
Speaking during an international conference organised by the International Bio-Research Institute (IBI), Ugwogo Nike, a sister institution, Agbo said the NMTH had got the nod of Federal Ministry of Health.
Agbo, director of Institute of Bioethics at the Madonna University, stated that Africa was so much endowed with natural herbs that should be well harnessed for the benefit of the people.
“In this regards, we have concluded the plan for the formal take-off of the Ordinary National Diploma (OND)-awarding teaching hospital where our people would be given adequate training on natural herbs,” he said.
On the activities of the Bio-Research Institute, he said it brings together people from all disciplines to fashion a way out of the myriads of problems facing man.
“Not all that are technically possible are genetically accessible. The man of technology has produced so many things that are now threatening the survival of man in the society.
“So, if something is not done by the same man himself, the society would go into extinction,” he said.
The conference, first of its kind in Africa, attracted participants from many parts of the world, including a renowned Italian engineer, Nazzareno Ceracchi, who presented a paper on “Solar Energy, Bio-energy and the Promotion of Life and Survival of Man.”
