IGWEBUIKE: African Journal of Arts and Humanities

Life is very precious and every individual seeks medical attention on a slight health challenge because life comes first before other things follow. Even before the advent of orthodox medicine there have different beliefs about different sicknesses and ways of curing them. Since the advent of the orthodox medicine there have been many changes and altercation in those traditional beliefs about certain sicknesses and the means and manners of treating them. Yet, some core traditionalists and even some Christian believers still in their traditional religious belief in the healing of their sicknesses. It therefore becomes a challenging issue to the orthodox health workers as health administrations after all struggles becomes waste of energy owing to the understanding and traditional religious belief of a patient. Many attempts have been made by the orthodox medical professionals to handle the issue of health administration in the midst of African traditional religious belief to no avail. Thus it becomes pertinent that health workers and administrators take into consideration and even more serious, understanding the traditional religious belief of the local community where they work to be able to function well and excel in their health administration. This research is therefore a thoughtful recommendation to the orthodox health workers to strive to understand the traditional religious belief of any community they found themselves for easier and better health administration because when a person’s religious belief is understand it is will be very easy to understand his or understanding of the sickness he/she is suffering from and a better way of administering medications without complications. 

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