Address by Dr. Michael Kyeremateng on the Occasion of the Introduction of the First Over the Counter Homeopathic Medicine in Ghana's Healthcare Delivery

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Distinguished Leadership of the Natural Health Professionals Federation Of Ghana-NahFeg, Friends Of the media, C4C Group Of Companies Team, Ladies and gentlemen:

I have the pleasure to be here to address you today, focusing on homeopathic pharmacy, and the need to have quality and effective internationally accepted and standardised homeopathic medicines to complement the work of the Medical Homeopath. The homeopathic product is an important ally in the success of health care delivery.

Medical homeopathy is a holistic therapy method involving a holistic perception of the person receiving medical treatment. Instead of being about the appendix or the gall bladder, it is about the whole person with all of his or her dimensions, at the physical, emotional and mental or psycholgical level. The beauty of homeopathy is that, all of this knowledge can also be used to identify a medicine matching as closely as possible the person’s illness. It is exciting for me to be able to perceive the patient differently through medical homeopathy. In medical homeopathy we use medicines composed of all of the elements in the periodic table, such as organic substances from every family of plants, animal products, salts, metals etc.

In the period between the 1950’s and 1980’s the efficiency and competency of conventional medicine seemed to be unlimited globally more especially in Ghana, Europe, US etc. Incredible technical progress raised the expectation that sooner or later it would cope with any diseases, and the finding of adequate cures was just a question of time.

Today, this optimism has partly disappeared and been substituted by harsh criticism and decreasing acceptance triggered by the publicly debated negative side effects, the impersonality of its machine-based treatments, its lack of a more holistic approach towards the human body, and its high costs.

The fact that an increasing number of patients turn to Traditional Medicine which includes Homeopathic Medicine, Naturopathic Medicine, Chiropractic Medicine, Acupuncture Medicine, Chinese Medicine etc in search of a better, additional or more adequate treatment, with not less than 70% of Ghana’s population accessing Traditional Medicine can be interpreted as an indication that the ‘golden age’ of conventional medicine has come to an end. Although it still dominates the public healthcare system, its hegemonic position is challenged and questioned by various therapeutic systems with their own concepts of health, illness and healing.

Within the spectrum of the various therapies offered in today’s pluralistic medical markets homeopathy occupies a prominent place. Not only does this medical system look back upon a history of more than 260 years, but also enjoys a steadily increasing number of users and supporters among patients.

In Ghana, there are more than 90% practitioners who are professionally trained as radionics practitioners who uses radionic equipment’s to produce and transfer energy into water in a bottle mixed with food color and give it out as homeopathic medicine which is not reviewed, vetted and approved by the FDA and has no FDA number of registration to that effect due to the traditional nature of the belief of this practice which Is not regulated strictly by the FDA or the Ghana Standards regarding the use of the radionics equipment used in question.

In this week of the world homeopathy celebration, the C4C Homeopathic Pharmaceuticals a subsidiary of the C4C Group Of Companies who for more than 10 years have introduced the first private homeopathic health insurance, first accredited homeopathic medical college, among others as the leader introducing scientific aspect of homeopathic medicine today introduces

THE FIRST EVER FDA first OVER THE COUNTER HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES in the HISTORY OF GHANA’S HEALTHCARE DELIVERY.

This will now create opportunities for Ghanaian’s nationwide to access homeopathic medicine at any major pharmacy in each region, district, communities in Ghana without stress alongside the herbal medicines and the allopathic medicines.

Ghanaians, Clinics , Hospitals, Medical Centers and pharmacies now have the liberty to contact the C4C HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACEUTICALS for both wholesale and retail of this for quality healthcare and contact the C4C LIVER SPECIALIST HOSPITAL for their reviews, further diagnoses as far as the full knowledge, experience of this products is accorded to the C4C HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACEUTICALS AND THE C4C LIVER SPECIALIST HOSPITALS.

This new concept is expected to employ more than 1 million Ghanaian Youth in the next 22 years after the training of more homeopathic pharmacist and Medical Homeopaths to be self employed and to also work with various pharmacies, OTC etc. that dispense homeopathic medications nationwide

To ensure efficiency and quality of service in the homeopathic healthcare industry, there is the need for the proper training of the homeopathic pharmacist, the medical homeopath. Such a trained pharmacist and homeopath should have imbibed the homeopathic pharmacopoeia and its applications towards assisting patients at all homeopathic centers,clinics, hospitals, industries, factories etc. which will help in providing treatment for all conditions presented at a homeopathic health facility or any other healthcare center.

The homeopathic pharmacist or the medical homeopath, when properly trained will be a great asset to any health care facility or dispensing shops in Ghana.

Homeopathic Remedies worldwide, depending on the potency, are either sold as over the counter remedies or as prescribed remedies. Thus there is the need for homeopathic pharmaceutical shops, homeopathic pharmacies in every supposed homeopathic clinic, pharmacy etc. to be able to dispense such remedies as appropriate. The establishment of these shops will certainly be on the increase if the number of homeopathic hospitals and clinics increase – as we envisage, — in the very near future.

I would, therefore, encourage all Ghanaians, and Africans at large, to embrace this medical practice worldwide to look into becoming homeopathic pharmacists and Medical Homeopaths.

The C4C Homeopathic Medical College, in the coming months will commence various training in Homeopathic OTC Assistant for 6 month, Medical Homeopathic Training for 2-6years.

This will help facilitate a good future for the homeopathic health care industry in Ghana and by extension Africa, and I do hope we will be able to carry all who care – law makers, regulators, professional associations, etc., along with us.