Phytomedicine is the utilisation of the therapeutic and healing properties of herbs for medicinal purposes, and this has been in existence since the advent of human civilisation. With the numerous health challenges that Nigerians face, ranging from communicable to non-communicable diseases, conventional pharmacotherapy has rather been the mainstay of treatments for a majority of conditions.
Lately, drug manufacturing in Nigeria has been on the decline, with the main reasons for this being infrastructural challenges, such as a lack of consistent energy supply, as well as inadequate financial support for up-and-coming pharmaceutical scientists. Other difficulties include a weak technology and engineering base, coupled with feeble industrial linkages and supply chains, alongside high taxation.
Meanwhile, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund is generally known for providing support for research and development in institutions in the country of which the health sector is not left out. TETFund’s intervention often covers universities and other health parastatals in the areas of medical research, as well as the provision of facilities for the treatment of major ailments.
This pledge of support from TETFund was disclosed by the executive secretary of the organisation, Professor Suleiman Bogoro during a virtual meeting on the ‘Institutionalisation of R and D in Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Subsector Thematic Group’, which coincided with the one year anniversary of the establishment of the TETFund Research and Development Standing Committee .
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