The Gauteng Department of Health and about 500 traditional healers from around the province will tomorrow commemorate African Traditional Medicine Day at Vereeniging, Vaal.
This follows the decision made by the Organisation of African Union in 2001 to integrate African Traditional Medicine within the health system.
Under the theme, Collaboration between traditional medicine practitioners and conversional medicine practitioners. Government officials and traditional healers will share national experience on research and development of traditional medicine, strategies for a plan for utilising traditional medicine, understand progress made in regulation and institutionalising traditional medicine in health care delivery, to create a formal relationship between government and traditional health practitioners and to understand African traditional medicine profile.
Details of the celebrations are as follows:
Date: Friday, 29 August 2014
Time: 09h00
Venue: Vereeniging Civic Centre
For more information please contact:
Prince Hamnca, Head of Communications
Cell: 076 744 8126
