Medicina Tradicional y Naturopatía Clínica

Abstracto

Development of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Ethiopian Traditional Medical Practitioners Though a Compressive Training Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Sameson Taye, Rekik Ashebir, Biruktawit Girma, Firhiwot Teka, Worku Gemech and Kidst Yirsaw

Background: The Ethiopian health sector has shown remarkable progress in improving the maternal and under five children by reducing the morbidity and mortality throughout the country level. There is an improvement in the expansion of health facilities and health services in each health care facility. Besides the expansion of health facilities, a large number of Ethiopian utilizes traditional medicine. Providing training or health education to the traditional medical practitioners expands the Ministries effort for the prevention of diseases which one of the core components of the health policy. The goal of the training is improving in the Ethiopian health care systems through participation of the Traditional medical practitioners in the health care systems.

Techniques: The training package was cover topics relevant to health policy, regulations, Health System Transformation Plan agendas, and progress of the health system, Ethiopian Traditional medicines, Intellectual Property Rights, Conservation of traditional medicines, Research methods on Traditional medicines, Regulation of Traditional medicine/Traditional medicine Practitioners, Medical Ethics World health organization guidelines on good manufacturing practices for herbal medicines and Health Education. The audiences are traditional healers from various regions of Ethiopia. The training methods were include Lecture, Case Studies, Demonstration, practice and Group discussion to capture the knowledge, skill and value areas of each training course.

Outcome: On this the first round traditional healer training 50 traditional practitioners was participated though out the country. Analysis from a mini training assessment during the time of training indicated that the training were capacitating knowledge, attitude and practice on traditional medicine and practice as a primary health care service provider on the community.

Conclusion: based on the outcome evaluation we concluded that multidisciplinary approach and practice are required to achieve the objective of this project. Also, compressive and holistic training manual preparations are expected from this and planned subsequent traditional medicine practitioner training.