Lagos Seals Two Traditional Birth Attendant Centres

• The two traditional birth attendant facilities found wanting were sealed at No. 58, Willoughby Street, Ebute-Metta and 12, Ogunnaike Ride Street, Agege, area of the state.
• The Lagos government had on Sunday said it would impose sanctions on traditional medical practitioners operating in the state who fail to register their business with the traditional medicine board.

Due to violations of practice guidelines, two traditional birth attendant facilities have been sealed by the Lagos State Traditional Medicine Board.

The government’s official website states that the institutions were sealed during a board operation to combat non-compliance with the state’s code of conduct for the practice of traditional medicine.

The two traditional birth attendant facilities that were judged deficient were sealed and located in the state at No. 58, Willoughby Street, Ebute-Metta, and No. 12, Ogunnaike Street, Agege.

The facilities were sealed to safeguard the state’s public health and safety, according to Mrs. Adams Aisha, who oversaw the inspectorate team for the LSTMB, when she spoke during the enforcement operation.

She said the inspectorate team mobilised personnel of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps to ensure swift and effective response to protect the well-being of Lagosians.

According to Adams, the Board strives to protect the public from unscrupulous traditional medicine practitioners and promote the responsible use of traditional medicine for the benefit of all through continuous clampdown and ongoing initiatives.

She said, “The Board’s operation is rooted in its commitment to create a structured Traditional Medicine practice that is respected, standardised, documented, modernised and protected.”

Adams, therefore, urged practitioners and the public to collaborate in upholding the best standards, while prioritising the well-being of patients seeking treatments.

The Lagos government had on Sunday said it would impose sanctions on traditional medical practitioners operating in the state who fail to register their business with the traditional medicine board.

The LSTMB Registrar, Babatunde Adele, made this known in a statement on January 21.

The government ordered 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 was necessitated owing to the increasing and unbearable level of quackery in the field of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine,” Adele had said.