Bamako, Mali (PANA) – A training session for local traditional healers on the risks of the spread of the Ebola virus disease opened on Friday in Bamako, capital of Mali.
Jointly organized by Save the Children and the Malian umbrella associations of traditional healers and herbalists (FEMATH), the session is the start of an extensive programme aimed at sensitizing traditional healers and herbalists on the Ebola virus disease across the country.
The session is also to get them to mobilize in the fight against Ebola and extend efforts to the other layers of the community to scale up advocacy with Malian authorities to lead them to get further involved in the fight against this disease.
The head of the National Public Health Research Institute (INRSP), Dr Mamadou Traore Sounkalo, said traditional and conventional medicine should harmonize their efforts in the fight against this disease.
“As health workers, traditional healers also remain exposed to the disease because patients in African countries first consult traditional healers,” he stressed.
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