The Ethnomedicine Practitioners Association of South Africa (EPASA) is a non profit federal organization that accredits and controls ethno- and traditional health practitioners. Its members are responsible for caring for public health in all spheres.
The Ethnomedicine Practitioners Association of South Africa (EPASA) was established in 1987, in order to promote, enhance and unify the practice of ethnomedicine in South Africa.
Was held on
10 Septemer 2008
Dr. Isaac Kekana
Chairman: EPASA
9.30am for 10.00am
Wednesday Morning
re:
Department of Health
Government Gazette on the Traditional Healers Act
&
Medical Insurance
The Department of Health : Government Gazette on the Traditional Healers Act has been published and is available for public comment.
The meeting on 10th September 2008 was for discussion on the contents of the Gazette.
DOWNLOAD DOCUMENTS
ACT NO 22, TRADITIONAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS ACT, 2007
DRAFT POLICY TRADITIONAL MEDICINE FOR SOUTH AFRICA, JULY 2008
The EPASA meeting regarding the Traditional Healers Act and the Draft Policy on Traditional Healing held on Wednesday, was very exciting.
Ethnomedicine is recognized in the construct of the policy!
Ethnopsychology is a Modality of Ethnomedicine in the philosophy of healing body, mind an spirit.
The Department of Health, EPASA & Getmed Medical Insurance
each require a Personal Profile from all members. The profiles must be printed and bound & delivered or posted to EPASA.
No e-mail profiles will be accepted, and members will not be registered with the Department of Health or Getmed if a profile has not been submitted.
A Templet for the Profile can be downloaded here
PERSONAL PROFILE TEMPLET
Please support us in submitting your profiles as soon as possible. The templet is an example, and you can just type your information in.
The Draft Policy on Traditional Healing was Gazetted on 21 July 2008,
and open for public comment until the end of September. Both documents are available on the EPASA website.
Please send in your comments to support the initiative. The address is on the Draft Policy Document. Should you require an example of a typical response, please e-mail: info@epasa.co.za
DOWNLOAD AN EXAMPLE OF A TYPICAL RESPONSE
Please use your own wording and opinion
More detailed information will be given
in a newsletter.
Congratulations and many thanks to
Dr. Isaac Kekana
Chairperson of EPASA
and
the Executive and other EPASA committees.
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WHAT IS EPASA?
| EPASA stands for Ethnomedicine Practitioners Association of South Africa and is a body which accredits and controls the ethnomedical practice. It's members are responsible for caring for public health in all spheres. |
HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
African Traditional Medicine is a mainstay of primary health care for the majority in Africa. About 80% of the population has relied on resources within their environment to survive since God's creation.
Plants, minerals and animals constitute the major natural resources ever used by mankind for preventative, curative and rehabilitative health in Africa. Like any other continent, these resources have been used for over ten thousand years by traditional health practitioners (THP's), who acquired their knowledge and skills through observation, spiritual revelation, personal experience, training and direct information from their predecessors. |
THE ROLE OF EMERGED SCIENTIFIC
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE SYSTEM:
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ETHNOMEDICINE "
What is Ethnomedicine Science? Ethnomedicine is a multi-disciplinary field of study that draws on approaches and methods from both the social and biological sciences, culturally based biological and environmental knowledge, cultural perception and cognition of the natural world, associated behaviours and practices, concerned with the cultural interpretations of health, disease and illness, and also addresses the health care seeking process and healing practices.It is a study of cultural concepts of health, disease and illness, and of the nature of healing systems.
Ethnomedicine has turned it's attention to laboratory research, which has been made possible by the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO). In fact, the traditional medicine programme of the WHO was precisely thought of as an answer to renewed interest for population therapies and remedies, in view of possible identification and utilisation within national health services. |
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EPASA
Helvetia House
Ground Floor
Greenvale Road
Wilbart
GERMISTON / EDENVALE BORDER
(N12 Highway: Edenvale Offramp)
New Telephone Number
HELVETIA HOUSE
011-450-3845
Office Hours
9am - 3pm
or
Tel: 0861 105 808
Mervyn Bartholomew
Cell: 083 266 4338
mervyn@epasa.co.za
Fax: 0866 279 604
e-mail: info@epasa.co.za
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