Health Minister wants research between China and Guyana on folk medicine

Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence wants to push joint research activities in the use of alternative or folk medicine between Guyana and China.

According to a press release form the Ministry of Public Health, Lawrence told Yuanzheng Huang, Vice Mayor of Lianyungang, during a courtesy call at her office on Monday that she is looking forward for a pact between Guyana and China to establish a research laboratory utilising the rich flora and fauna of the Amazon.

China “has a lot to offer after blazing the trail for the last 300 years” the release quoted Lawrence as telling Huan whose country has popularised the use of folk medicine as part of the regimen offered to patients.