1. Dr. Sekagya Yahaya Hills (MPH , BDS) Traditional Healer
The Indigenous and Complementary Medicine (ICM) Bill 2015 “The Traditional Medicine”
Dr. Sekagya Yahaya Hills
(MPH , BDS)
Traditional Healer

2. Presentation outline Why Traditional Medicine Bill
Aim, Goal and Objectives of the Traditional Medicine Bill
Content
Context
Actors
Process
Committee
Functions for the committee
Summary of offences and penalties

3. Why Traditional Medicine Bill
An act to:
Define Indigenous and Complimentary Medicine in relation to Modern Medicine,
To establish a council to control and regulate the practice of Indigenous and Complimentary Medicine,
To register and license practitioners and
To provide for related matters

4. To put in place the law is to compliment Biomedicine, Provide for :
Registration of practitioners and practices of ICM
Minimum standards
Financial provision
Annual reports of activities
Offences against the Act &
making regulations under the Act

5. Traditional Medicine (TM)
Refers to the total combination of knowledge and practices, whether explicable or not, used in diagnosing, preventing or eliminating physical, mental or social diseases and which may rely exclusively on past experience and observations handed down from generation to generation, verbally or in writing (WHO, 2013).

6. Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine means any finished labeled medicinal products that contain as active ingredients aerial or underground parts of plants or other plant materials or a combination of then whether in the crude state or as a plant preparation and for the purpose of this definition
Herbal medicine may contain excipients in plant material in addition to the active ingredients and in exceptional cases may also contain natural organic active ingredients which ar not of plant origin and
Plant material includes extracts, gums, fatty oils and any other substances of that nature

7. National Council of Indigenous and Complimentary Medicine Practitioners
Composition
2 representatives from Traditional Healers Associations
Commissioner for Health Services (Clinical Services) in the Ministry
2 representatives from Indigenous and Complimentary practitioners
Director of Research (NCRI) In the Ministry
Senior Medical Practitioner
Anthropologist or Sociologist
Representative for Ministry of Internal Affairs
Representative for Ministry of Culture

8. Secretariat and Staff of the Council
Ministry of Health
Management at Local government level
Registrar
Functions of the Registrar
Staff of the council

9. Registration of Practitioners
Qualification for registration (Provided for Part IV)
Licensing of Practice and Practitioner
Titles of practitioners
Representation of the council

10. Minimum Standards
Code of Conduct
Ethical Principles

11. Relationship between Indigenous and Complementary Medicine Practice and Modern Medicine
Non- Concurrent Practice of Both
Non use of modern medicine titles

12. Dr. Sekagya Yahaya Hills
Thank you
Dr. Sekagya Yahaya Hills