Singapore to Study Using More TCM Therapies in Public Healthcare

SPEECH BY MR ONG YE KUNG_ MINISTER FOR HEALTH_ AT THE FORUM ON THE USE OF EVIDENCE-BASED TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE IN WESTERN MEDICINE PRACTICE (Ministry of Health of the Republic of Singapore)

) Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State Mr Cheng Wai Keung, Chairman, SingHealth Professor Fong Kok Yong, Deputy Group CEO, SingHealth Dr Goh Kia Seng, President, Academy of Chinese Medicine, Singapore Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen 1. I am delighted to join you today at this rather rare forum, where Western medicine clinicians and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners gather to learn from one another. Co-existence of …

Singapore to Study Using More TCM Therapies in Public Healthcare

Singapore will gradually integrate more traditional Chinese medicine treatments into its public healthcare system during a testing initiative that will explore how such therapies will complement Western ones.

MOH studying 18 proposals to integrate TCM into public healthcare

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MOH considering proposals to integrate TCM into public healthcare

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