The Lagos State government has vowed to impose sanctions on traditional medical practitioners operating in the state if they fail to register their premises with the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board (LSTMB).
The LSTMB Registrar, BABATUNDE ADELE, made this known in a statement directing all traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine practitioners to regularise their registration by visiting the head office of the agency on or before Friday, February 6, 2024.
The order for registration, according to the registrar, was necessitated owing to the increasing and unbearable level of quackery in the field of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine.
He warned that any practitioner that 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 also explained that in accordance with the extant laws, the reenlistment/reinstatement of practitioners would attract a penalty, while noting that illegal operators shall be heavily sanctioned, including sealing of the disobeying facility, among others.