The strategies of the roadmap include revision of policies, proclamation and guidelines, strengthening control mechanisms as well as nurturing, documenting and preservation of indigenous knowledge, said Dr Amir Aman, Minister of Health.
The strategies also include incorporating traditional medicine knowledge to formal education, building capacity of practitioners, collaborating with pharmaceutical manufacturers to produce research-proven traditional medicines and availing well-regulated traditional medicines.
Dr Amir said the final aspiration of the roadmap is to reveal those free of side effects research medicinal benefit and put as alternative medicine.
It also targets availing well-researched medicines to international market, he said on Twitter.
According to the Minister, about 80 of the Ethiopians take traditional medicine first-hand for most of the illnesses.
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