Part 1 — ZAKI THE LION: American Pharmacist Honored as Village Chief in Nigeria, West Africa Dr. Dan Wagner is a clinical and natural pharmacist from Pittsburgh, PA who does professional counseling with patients who take both prescription and complementary medicine. As an “integrative” practitioner, he believes in the health advantages of balancing conventional therapies with natural ones. His natural medicine pharmacy, called NutriFarmacy (www.nutrifarmacy.com) was established in 1997. Over the past 2 decades, Dr. Dan has done extensive traveling with an emphasis on researching plant medicines in the rainforests of Belize, Cuba, Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, and Africa. He has worked closely with some of the leading ethnobotanists and herbalists in the field and has incorporated his knowledge and experience into his natural pharmacy practice. Dan has traveled to Nigeria eight times in 11 years. In 2004, he was first invited to visit the rural village of Azara, located in central Nigeria in the state of Nasarawa. During the following years, Dan was instrumental in developing annual diabetes screening clinics with his team. In 3 years they have donated thousands of doses of diabetic medications, vitamins, and equipment to help the village along in their absence. He also contributed to the cost of digging a new well (borehole) in Azara in 2006. The project was completed in 2007 and now provides clean drinking water to the village of 20000 people. It was announced in March of …

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