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ghana news Herbal Medicine: Less than 15% practitioners registered
He said TMPC had also inspected more than 500 traditional medicine practice premises across the country, with some facilities closed because they posed risks to public health.
Dr Yusuf said that about 70 per cent of the Ghanaian population relied on herbal and traditional medicine as part of their primary health care, making research and regulation necessary to ensure that such medicines were safe for public use.
Public education Dr Yusuf urged members of the public to ensure that they patronised only licensed traditional medicine practitioners and products that had gone through the required regulatory processes.
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