06-07-2025
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.
The health ministry has received 18 proposals on treatments that can be adopted and a committee will evaluate the scientific robustness of each of them, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said Sunday. Some will be implemented in a 'controlled environment' in the city's public healthcare institutions for one to two years, he said, adding that the cost-effectiveness of each treatment will also be studied.
