The Federal Ministry of Health has advised traditional medicinepractitioners to work as a team, to improve the health care delivery system inNigeria. The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnibe Mamora gave theadvice in Abuja, at the opening of the 2019 African Traditional Medicine Day,organised by the African Traditional Medicine Department of the Ministry ofHealth. The three-day event is expected to promote and exhibit traditionalherbal practitioners in Nigeria, and their products to the world, with thetheme: “Integration of Traditional Medicine in the Curricular of HealthSciences Students in Universities in the African Region.” Mamora said there was the need to close the gap betweentraditional practices and change in attitude, required for an effective team,to achieve such a great ambition for Nigeria. In her address of welcome, Director, Traditional MedicineDepartment in the Ministry, Zainab Shariff said that the decision to observethe Day followed the adoption in two thousand, of a resolution on promoting therole of traditional medicine in the health systems by the region’s ministers.mO�=.|�a