Due to violations of practice guidelines, the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board has closed two establishments that employ traditional birth attendants.
According to a statement on the official government website, the institutions were sealed during a board operation to combat non-compliance with the code of conduct of traditional medicine practice in the state.
The state sealed up the two traditional birth attendant facilities that were declared deficient: No. 58, Willoughby Street, Ebute-Metta, and No. 12, Ogunnaike Street, Agege.
The LSTMB inspectorate team leader, Mrs. Adams Aisha, stated during the enforcement operation that the facilities were sealed to ensure the state’s public health and safety.
According to her, the inspectorate team dispatched members of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps to guarantee prompt and efficient action to safeguard the welfare of Lagos residents.
Adams claims that the Board works to safeguard the public from dishonest traditional medicine practitioners and to advance the ethical application of traditional medicine for the good of all through persistent enforcement and ongoing projects.
“The Board’s operation is rooted in its commitment to create a structured practice of traditional medicine that is modernized, protected, documented, and respected,” the speaker stated.
Adams consequently called on professionals and the general public to work together to maintain the highest standards while putting the health of those undergoing treatment first.
Traditional medicine practitioners operating in the state who do not register their businesses with the Traditional Medicine Board will face punishment, the Lagos administration announced on Sunday.
On January 21, Babatunde Adele, the LSTMB Registrar, said this.
The government mandated that all practitioners of complementary, alternative, and traditional medicine regularize their registration by coming to the agency’s head office by Friday, February 6, 2024, at the latest.
Adele had stated, “The growing and intolerable level of quackery in the field of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine made the registration order necessary.”