Officials at the Kampala-based Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute (NCRI) have said they are seeing more qualified medical professionals enrolling for the course on traditional medicine as integration of modern and traditional medicine takes shape.

“Our students are people who are practicing. We have medical people. I'm happy that every year we get medical people. We nurses, doctors, and clinicians enrolling; they want to diversify. That is integration,” Dr Francis Omujal, a senior researcher at NCRI said on Monday.

According to Dr Omujal, the curriculum was developed by NCRI along with the Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT) under the Ministry of Education.

“The issue of capacity building is a big agenda to transform the [health] sector. Right now we have one curriculum that covers levels one, two and three. At each level, they are taught how to grow, how to process and how to manufacture in a standard format,” he explained.

Dr Omujal was addressing journalists in Kampala ahead of the October 10 African Traditional Medicine Day conference at the Makerere University School of Public Health auditorium.

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