Definition of traditional Chinese medicine (6)

Time: 2017-04-14

Source: Chinese medical journal

Article 6 the state shall strengthen the establishment of a service system for traditional Chinese medicine, and rationally plan and allocate the resources of traditional Chinese medicine services, and provide guarantee for citizens to receive traditional Chinese medicine services.

The state supports the investment of social forces in traditional Chinese medicine, and supports organizations and individuals to donate and fund traditional Chinese medicine.

This article is about strengthening the establishment of the TCM service system and supporting the investment of social forces in traditional Chinese medicine.

The first paragraph of this article clarifies the requirement of the state to strengthen the construction of TCM service system. Strengthening the establishment of the TCM service system is the foundation for developing traditional Chinese medicine services. Traditional Chinese medicine services include traditional Chinese medicine, health care, health care and rehabilitation services. The TCM service system includes the TCM medical service system and the health care service network of TCM. Chinese medicine including medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine and medical service system construction in other medical institutions to set up the department of traditional Chinese medicine, and strengthen community, village clinics, the grassroots medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine service ability construction, etc. The traditional Chinese medicine department of TCM medical institutions and other medical institutions is the main body of TCM service to the public.

To ensure the supply of services of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine method to specify the government held in medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine's responsibility to the people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the construction of medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine medical institutions establishment program, the host scale suitable for medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, with TCM characteristics and advantages of the development of medical institutions. The merger, cancellation of the government's medical establishment, or changes in the nature of its medical treatment should be solicited from the competent department of traditional Chinese medicine of the people's government at the next higher level.

At the same time, the Chinese medicine law also emphasizes the establishment of TCM departments in medical institutions at various levels in order to improve the capacity of traditional Chinese medicine. The government-sponsored comprehensive hospital, maternal and child health care institutions and qualified specialized hospitals, community health service centers and township health clinics shall set up the department of traditional Chinese medicine; The people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to enhance the capacity of community health service stations and village clinics to provide traditional Chinese medicine services.

The second paragraph of this article states that the state supports the investment in traditional Chinese medicine. In terms of strengthening the construction of medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, in addition to the government to hold the public medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, also want to actively mobilize social forces to investment business of traditional Chinese medicine, held in private medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, including private hospital of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine clinics, etc.

For this purpose, the method of traditional Chinese medicine in line with the principle of equal treatment to the private and public medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, the provisions of the social power of the medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine in access, practicing, insurance of primary medical treatment, scientific research teaching and technical titles, medical personnel and government held the same rights of medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, to encourage investment in positive social forces to cause of Chinese medicine. The state also supports organizations and individuals to donate and fund traditional Chinese medicine.

TCM course itself is a benefit to the public health of the public welfare undertakings, so the state encourages and supports all kinds of organizations and individuals to make donations to cause of Chinese medicine and funding. There are a few things that need to be said: one is that the "organizations" that are laid out here include organizations such as institutions, enterprises, institutions, and social organizations. Second, organizations and individuals to make donations to cause of Chinese medicine and funding, conform to the public welfare donations act and charity law regulations, enjoy preferential tax in accordance with the law.

(from the Chinese People's Republic of China on the interpretation of traditional Chinese medicine.)