The Ghana Herbal Medical Students’ Association is a non-political and non-religious organization composed of Herbal Medical Students in Ghana, Ghanaian Students studying Herbal Medicine abroad and Herbal Medicine graduates who have not been inducted into practice. It was founded in 2003 after the introduction of Herbal Medicine Program into the higher educational curricula of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in 2001.

The Association is governed by a seven-member Executive Council, a Students’ Council, and the General (Students) Assembly, whose policies are carried out through 12 documented committees.

The Association has among other things the following aims and objectives:

AIMS

• Educating the general public on the safe and rational use of herbal products
• To serve as a sole body for making representations to the Faculty authorities and organizations on behalf of the students
• To project the views and image of the Association at National and International levels

OBJECTIVES

• To encourage and promote the exchange of ideas by international correspondence, to encourage full dissemination of scientific and professional knowledge and by participating in congresses, conferences and seminars with other Herbal Medical Students.
• To collate opinions and information subjects of health education and suggest improvement where thought necessary.
• To promote cordial relations among student organizations in health sciences.
• To encourage and promote international visits among Herbal medical Students and to recommend students for exchange programmes.
• To publish a magazine annually as an organ of the Association.
• To inculcate a sense of duty, professional pride and confidence in members so as to help produce Herbal Medical Practitioners who will maintain high ethical standards.
• To organize lectures, excursions, and other such activities as will help educate the general public on the effects of abuse and correct use of herbs.

In line with our objectives, various programs and projects run by the Association within the year include the following:

• Annual Faculty and Health Awareness Week
• Annual National Drug Safety Campaign
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Campaign (WASH)
• Radio Outreach Programs via Media Committee
• FDA Programme
• Mini Clinic and patient counselling
• Media outreach
• Seminars and Conferences
• Magazine

It is always the resolve of the executive council to involve all members of the Association in policy making, as much as possible.

Our main aim is to promote safe complementary and alternate medicine 

 

OUR ANTHEM

To lend a helping hand

To do so with our might

Utilizing natural resources helping build

A, healthy nation wise

A noble profession, our pride

Is to save a dying soul

With plant remedies

 

Ghemsa!! Ghemsa!!!

Promoting safe medicine

Ghemsa!! Ghemsa!!

And alternative medicine

For we are the stars of the healthcare

Delivery

With plant medicine

And improved tradition

Service to humanity

Is service to almighty

Together we will build our nation

CONTACT US

Email; ghemsa2015@yahoo.com

Postal Address; P.O.Box PMB, Kumasi Ghana

GET TO US ON

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