(HBO) – The Association of Traditional Medicine in Hoa Binh province is a member of the provincial Union of Science and Technique Associations. Over the past years, it has boosted communications to encourage its members’ adherence to the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws, join emulation movements, and make efforts to fulfill duties, thereby contributing to public health care.
Members of the provincial Traditional Medicine Association introduce traditional therapies in Hoa Binh city.
Over the past years, the sub-associations of traditional medicine in the province have launched emulation campaigns and held celebrations of the health sector’s anniversaries to educate its members about specialised knowledge and medical ethics.
Across the province, there are now 57 licensed private establishments of traditional medicine, including five general clinics combining traditional and modern medicine, 28 giving traditional medicine therapies, 23 providing treatment using therapies passed down in their families, and three others supplying traditional medicine services.
Since the beginning of 2023, association members have given examination and treatment to 128,840 patients, over 106,150 of whom have taken traditional medicines and nearly 22,700 used non-pharmacological therapies like acupuncture, massage, and acupressure massage. Traditional medicine has proved effective and won people’s trust.
Vu Kim San, Chairman of the provincial Association of Traditional Medicine, said the organisation has increased supervision of its sub-associations and members’ implementation of central and provincial authorities’ directions for the upholding and development of traditional medicine. Sub-associations are also required to make plans for realising the targets set in the resolution of the provincial Association’s 14th Congress for the 2020 - 2025 tenure.
The association is the "common home” for members to exchange experience in health examination and treatment. As a result, the quality of its members has been increasingly improved, he noted.
In the time ahead, San went on, the association will boost examination of sub-associations and members’ implementation of central and provincial authorities’ directions, unceasingly improve the quality of their activities, consolidate their apparatus, develop membership, and build typical models of traditional medicine to multiply.
It will continue popularising the effects of traditional medicine so that more people use traditional therapies to cure common illnesses, better the quality of examination and treatment using traditional medicine, and take part in primary health care. It will also develop the cultivation of the medicinal plants with high economic value and promote the inclusion of the farming in socio-economic development plans and the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme so that traditional pharmaceuticals become commercial products, according to the Chairman./.
