Alternative therapy provider, Anmak insists it is the last bus-stop for all ailments
Jude Nzennaya, Port Harcourt
The Managing Director of Anmak Natural Medicine Academy and Anmak Health Solutions, Professor Anastasia Ndidiamaka Akpebe has reiterated that her School and Health Solutions outfit remain the last bus-stop for all ailments, including the ones that have defied solution through other medical treatments.
Professor Akpebe stated this in an interview with journalists during the just concluded 3-day AFRIHEALTH Conference in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
According to her, almost all the plants and herbs around us have medicinal properties or value, hence the natural medicine practitioners know and recognise that.
This, she said is also treasured by the Chinese and Indians of the Asian Continent.
Commenting on why people from other medical sectors tend to despise natural medicine, the Anmak managing director said it boils down to ignorance, pointing out that people tend to fear what they do not understand.
The Naturalpatic and Traditional Medicine Practitioner said the essence of the AFRIHEALTH Conference is to educate the people on the efficacy of herbs, which she said is equally contained in orthodox medicines.
She emphasized that,”in Anmak we educate people on the use of herbal medicine for the treatment of all ailments, even those that have defied solution through other medicines or treatment,”Professor Akpebe said.
On the AFRIHEALTH Conference, she said the association has come a long way and Anmak has partnered with the body for over three years, to the extent that she was appointed Regional Ambassador of AFRIHEALTH.
Commenting on their expectations at the end of the day, the Anmak managing said,”our expectation is that more people will know where to go when they are sick. We subscribe that they use natural medicines for solution to their ailments,”she said.
The Naturalpatic Practitioner added that natural medicines also boost the economy of the country, stressing that if you cannot beat a team, the proper thing to do is to join them.
Professor Akpebe also delivered a paper titled, “Your Weeds and Wastes,Our Medicines”.
Earlier in his address at the conference, the Chairman of the occasion, Mr Linus Awute had lamented the absence of representatives of the Ministry of Health in the conference.
He however promised to used his relationship with the Health Ministry as former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry to attract support for AFRIHEALTH.
Awute stressed that as Healthcare Practitioners it falls under their direct jurisdiction to preserve lives and they shall continue to do that. He lauded the organizers of the 10th AFRIHEALTH Conference for a job well done.
