THE Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) says Zambia should use China’s proposal to invest in the manufacturing of Chinese traditional medicine in the country as an opportunity for the nation to propel its own identity through value addition to Zambian traditional medicines. On Tuesday, a Chinese delegation that visited the Ministry of Health proposed a possible collaboration that would see China invest in the manufacturing of Chinese traditional medicine in Zambia. In an interview, Thursday, ZMA president Dr Kaumba Tolopu said China had managed to standardise its traditional medicine just as conventional medicine, and Zambia could learn from that and take a similar approach. “We should recognise that there is the existence of traditional medicine in Zambia and the question is...