Twenty asthma patients and a total of 30 hypertensive patients, on Friday, benefited from President Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh’s herbal medicine at his home village of Kanilai in Foni Kansala, Western Region, according to reports monitored from GRTS.

Dr Patrick Chang, Taiwanese ambassador to The Gambia, and members of the Taiwan Mobile Medical Team, which arrived in Banjul on December 9 to administer humanitarian medical services to provincial Gambia, witnessed the Gambian leader’s treatment processes.

As a crucial part of his treatment programme, the president combines the invocation of the Holy Qur’an and his herbal therapy to restore the health of the sick and the suffering. The President’s treatment combats “intractable” ailments, for which modern medicine has exhaustively failed to provide effective solutions.

The efficacy of his therapy is such that patients exhibit and confirm for themselves rapid improvement in their conditions within a short period of time after the medicine is administered.

Hypertensive patients’ blood pressures are regulated after drinking the medicine. As part of the routine in this treatment process, the patients’ blood pressures were monitored before and 10 minutes after drinking the medicine, to compare the results.

Asthma patients, including children, queued to benefit from President Jammeh’s asthma treatment.

Fully confident of the efficacy of his therapy, the president drinks a glass of medicine before administering it to his patients.

Dr Tamsir Mbowe, director general of the President’s Treatment Programme, who doubles as the director of Health and Medical Services, announced the results of patients, which showed a significant drop in their blood pressure. In the midst of curious foreign medical specialists, the announcement stimulated rousing jubilation and the President then elaborated on the series of tests conducted on the hypertensive patients.

Commenting on the treatment, Dr Jeffrey Chih-Fu Chen, head of the Taiwan Mobile Medical Team to The Gambia, admitted that he was amazed at the effectiveness of the herbal treatment. Dr Chen, who confirmed the existence of herbal medicine in Taiwan, noted that it never occurred to him that herbal medication could be an alternative to modern ones.

Aji Fatou Bah of Kanifing Layout and Ajaratou Ndumbeh Mboob, who benefited from the treatment, corroborated the potency of the President’s treatment and highlighted the numerous achievements of his leadership. The women used the opportunity to congratulate the president on the birth of his son Muhammad Yahya Jammeh.

Alhaji Dodou Colley described Dr Jammeh’s treatment as an attempt to improve the health of the ordinary person. He said the President’s vindication by the outcome of his therapy runs to enhance his credibility; a point re-echoed by Dr Tamsir Mbowe.