Fingers are being directed at graduates of herbal medicine as the answer to a positive change in medicine production in Ghana.
Experts say perennial issue of side effects and overtime resistance of orthodox medicines could be relegated to the background if we embrace herbal drugs.
This has resulted in the battle between herbal medicine and the orthodox one for the medicine market.
Though this makes it difficult for consumers to choose between the two, herbal medicine is surprisingly receiving much attention.
But recently, the new paradigm has come under a lot of heavy public backlash and uproar raising questions about the potency of some of them.
In recent times there have been reports of serious complications and sometimes even death of some patrons of the so called herbal medicines.
This has compelled some respectable section of the public to suggest the going back to the orthodox medicine to avoid the worst.
But students and graduates of the Herbal Medicine programme at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology are vehemently opposing the idea.
A young doctor of the Herbal Medicine Department at the KNUST is positive herbal medicine graduate is the answer to this recent brouhaha.
Dr.Richard Amoh believes these students are scientist who will inject best and appropriate scientific procedures and add to quality into the industry.
This, according to him would go a long way to curbing the issue of false, unhealthy and unhygienic concoction sold in the market.
Leadership of Ghana Herbal Medicine Students Associationis worried the media only talks about the negative things persons they describe as quark in their industry are doing.
Public Relations Officer, Ebenezer Agyemang also called on the public to support the new wave into accepting herbal drugs by propagating the good side.
“Herbal medicines are good but before you take them you should check where is coming from, how to use it and who is administering it,” he said.
Statistics haveshown that 25 percent of drugs prescribed in America have plant derived products.
And 600-700 herbal based preparations are prescribed by 70 per cent of German physicians.
Countries like China, India and Cuba have embraced the new wave and that has reduced their mortality ration.
