The various traditional medicine at a shop in Campbell Street. (CHARLES MARIASOOSAY/ The Star/16/Mac/2015)
THE Health Ministry takes note of the concerns expressed by Concerned Medical Practitioner from Kuala Lumpur in the letter “Traditional, not scientific” (The Star, Jan 10).
The World Health Organization acknowledges that there is significant and increasing demand for traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM) practices and practitioners worldwide. The Health Ministry of Malaysia has always been aware of the importance of T&CM in this country from the healthcare, economic and socio-cultural perspectives. The ministry advocates T&CM as a complement to modern medicine and strives to not only make safe and quality T&CM services accessible to the public but is also integrating them into the national healthcare system with the aim of achieving holistic healthcare for all Malaysians. Registration of T&CM pharmaceutical products by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency commenced in 1992, and in 2004 the Traditional and Complementary Medicine (T&CM) Division of the ministry was set up to look into the regulation of T&CM practices and practitioners.
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