Institute to train herbal medical experts
Director of International Bio Research Institute, Ugwogo Nike, in Enugu state, Prof. Ugwu Edmund Agbo, said yesterday that the institute would produce medical experts “who will specialise in using local drugs manufactured from herbs in curing and treating various forms of diseases and ailments soon.”
Agbo, who disclosed this in Ugwogo Nike, said development partners, Rev. Fr. Don Gonzalo Miranda and Mr Emmanuel Di Leo of Regina Apostolorum University in Rome, Italy, were “projecting the institution with a strategy that the students of the institute will be receiving lectures at the same time with their colleagues in Rome through Video conferencing.”
He said the introduction of Herbal Medicine as a course in the institution was predicated on the fact that medicinal herbs and shrubs abound in the country.
“Our herbalists due to their incapacitation and low level of education do not know how to manufacture, purify and administer these drugs as what is supposed to be for effective cure.
“But the new trend of herbalists, which the institution is bound to produce, having passed basic science courses at their secondary education level, will be further taken on further courses to understudy laboratory analysis of the various medicinal herbs, their uses and dosages to effect cure of a particular disease or ailment. And by so doing, they will make a difference between the so-called illiterate native doctors by becoming the modern herbalists who are science-inclined,” he said.
