Africa’s numerous arises, especially the economic crisis have and continue to impact negatively on the health care system and health status of millions of people in the continent. African governments and the international community have been making efforts to stem the worsening situation but with very little success. The actors in the provision of health care especially African governments are constrained by lack of adequate funds due to the debt burden and very low prices of export commodities, inflation, weak currencies etc. This is compounded by wider spread chronic poverty and illiteracy and inaccessibility of many areas. Faced with these problems African governments and people have to devise other methods of tackling the heath question. It is evidently clear that dependence on the western orthodox methods alone has proved inadequate. This paper suggests that the development and incorporation of the indigenous (traditional) medical and health care system could be a viable alternative or option of immense importance to the development of the continent’s health care system and status of its teeming populations. To achieve this the paper shall examine the nature of Africa’s economic crisis and its impact efforts made so far to develop and incorporate the indigenous system into the modern one and the need for sustained efforts to hold on to the system and its advantages in taking the deteriorating health situation of the continent.