The Lagos State Government has announced its intention to impose sanctions on traditional medical practitioners operating in the state who do not register their businesses with the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board (LSTMB).
Babatunde Adele, the Registrar of LSTMB, issued a statement on Sunday, stressing the need for all traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine practitioners to complete their registration by visiting the agency’s head office on or before Friday, February 6, 2024.
“The order for registration was necessitated owing to the increasing and unbearable level of quackery in the field of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine,” Adele said.
He added, “Pursuant to the desire of the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board to have a comprehensive database of functional Traditional Medicine Practitioners and Complementary Alternative Medicine Practitioners the governing board has approved the revision of the register of practitioners in Lagos State in accordance with the Health Sector Reform Laws of 2005.”
He, however, noted that “any TMP or CAMP who fails to renew their licence up to date shall have their names delisted from the register in consonance with the provisions of the above traditional medicine law.”
Adele further stated that, under the extant laws, “the re-enlistment/ reinstatement of practitioners will attract a penalty,” while noting that illegal operators “shall be heavily sanctioned, including sealing of the contravening facility, among others.”
The registrar advised all the practitioners to strictly adhere to the directives.