Hope in sight for urine retention patients
Enoch Darfah Frimpong
Health
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Current orthodox treatment for the condition is cumbersome and includes the passing of a catheter into urine bags and surgery.
Left untreated, the condition could lead to renal failure.
Mr Appiah said the major ailments seen by the centre were malaria, hypertension, typhoid, diabetes, asthma and rheumatism.
He advised people not to buy just any herbal medication but see clinicians for them to prescribe the correct medications and dosage to suit individual conditions.
He said, for instance, that diabetics might have to undergo laboratory tests in order to determine the dosage of their medications, in addition to a review of their lifestyles.
On challenges facing the centre, Mr Appiah said it was mainly insufficient funding, a situation not too different from what pertains in other public institutions.
He said with adequate funding, the centre could improve research and development into plant medicine and its structures which would definitely include its laboratories and the employment of more researchers.
The deputy director said Ghana had a biodiversity of plants which were medicinal and that if the situation with funding improved, it could take plant medicine to the level that Japan and China had done.
“Herbal medicine is our heritage and if we value it, we will get a lot of benefits from it,” he said.
“We could use herbal medicine for the prevention of diseases and, by so doing, decrease our health burden to a very large extent,” Mr Appiah said.
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