A team of Medical /Herbal Doctors stormed Lokoja, Kogi state capital, on a free medical out reach mission.
Led by the President, National Union of Medical and Herbal Practitioners , Dr. Kabiru Muhammad ( Dr. Nabargu), the team arrived Felele a suburb of Lokoja on Saturday.
Dr.Kabiru Muhammad who is the Chairman of the Musabil Herbal and Rehabilitation Centre, in Keffi Nasarawa state, disclosed to Journalists in Lokoja, that the team is honouring an invitation from the community which benefited from the services of his centre in Keffi.
He said though the team earlier intended to spend only two days in Lokoja for the free medical out reach, it has become necessary to extend the duration of the service in view of the turn out of large number of patients.
Dr.Nabargu said the team comprises of Specialists in psychiatric, epilepsy, skin diseases, paediatric, related ailments. Others include eye, ulcer, pile among others.
He disclosed that while the Herbal medicine can cure all know ailments and diseases, the othodox medical practitioners can not, pointing out that the herbalists believe that before outbreak of any disease , epidemic or pandemic, God already has arranged cure.
The National President of the Medical and Herbal Practitioners therefore advised patients not to heavily rely on hospitals only, as some sicknesses can not be cured by them.
When our correspondent visited Felele, scores of patients males and
females were seen in a long queue being attended to. They also have mobile laboratory where patients under various tests before diagnoses and treatment.