Draft seeks more status for TCM in health system
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China’s top legislature yesterday began to read the Law on traditional Chinese medicine, which calls for a strengthened role of TCM in China’s health care system.
A draft document was passed earlier this month by the State Council and submitted to the bimonthly session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee this week.
Wang Guoqiang, director of the State Administration of TCM, said yesterday morning at the session that the draft law will support and exert TCM’s role in the whole medical system, bringing it into the country’s free-of-charge basic public health services program.
The draft law also vows to expand TCM’s role in dealing with emergency public health incidents and disease prevention and controls, strengthening policy support for TCM, making policies to allow TCM medical fees to be covered by basic medical insurance schemes.
It also calls for maintaining the characteristics of TCM, using TCM methodologies to provide health services, improving the quality of TCM materials and encouraging medical institutions to use TCM preparations.
The draft aims to address the current problems faced by TCM, including lack of capability and ability to adapt to the current personnel and drug system, Wang said.
TCM has gained public attention recently after Tu Youyou won a Nobel Prize for her work using artemisinin to treat malaria based on a traditional Chinese herb treatment.
The NPC Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee said last week that legislation for TCM has become a hotspot in their work, with dozens of bills and suggestions made by NPC deputies.
The committee said it was essential to support TCM services in the same way as all other health care clinics.
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