The efficacy of Dr Alhaji Yahya Jammeh's herbal treatment on HIV/Aids, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, and infertility has dwindled the emergence of patients at outpatient departments of health facilities across the country.

It has also lifted the huge cost involved in the procurement of drugs for the department of state for health and social welfare since the start of the Gambian leader's herbal treatment a year ago.

In an interview with the Daily Observer, Dr Tamsir Mbowe, director general of the president's treatment programme, said since the commencement of the Gambian leader's herbal treatment ,thousands of patients who used to report at the RVTH and other health facilities for the management of HIV/Aids, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, and infertility have now diverted attention to the Presidential treatment, and as a result, Dr Mbow went on, the cost involved in the procurement of drugs like anti-hypertensive, anti-diabetics, and infertility has significantly been reduced.

"The bed capacities in the hospitals have also reduced. This was as a result of the effectiveness of the presidential treatment".

The Dr.Mbowe added that patients must strictly pay heed to the conditions of the President's treatment programme. "There are certain diseases that particular patients of it must not take certain food items or drugs. In any treatment there are rules.

Even in the conventional medical treatment system, there are rules which patients must follow in order to realise effectiveness of the treatment. Once patients default, the result is ineffectiveness of the treatment.

The presidential treatment is saving thousands of lives in the country and abroad. We have so many foreign patients in the treatment programme and this has been on the increase".

The director general added that people must understand that medicine - be it Indonesian, Asian, Modern, African or traditional - its primary aim is to restore the sick to health, and the fundamental principle of medicine is to prolong life and not to make it eternal. "Traditional medicine is not inferior to modern medicine.

There are herbal drugs coming into the market that proved to be superior even to conventional products. We must all give President Jammeh the support he deserves in his endeavours.

We have seen patients coming in for treatment after fifteen years of infertility, confirming to us that they are pregnant after taking President Jammeh's medicine. The same applies to HIV/Aids, hypertension, diabetes, and others. We must pray to God for him to give the president more knowledge to be able to cure other diseases in the near future".