Govt Refers Draft Bill on Alternative Medicine to Parliament

The government on Thursday adopted a bill on alternative and complementary medicine, a branch of medicine that has so far not been regulated by law.

The draft bill aims to protect the users of such medicine from possible damage, while it also brings improvements for the practitioners, Health Minister Andrej Brucan told the press after the government's session.
It defines basic alternative and complementary practices, such as traditional Chinese and Indian medicines and homeopathy, Brucan explained.
The bill says that practitioners should refer to doctors people with acute illnesses and with clear deterioration of chronic disease.
The practitioners of alternative and complementary medicine will also have to be acquainted with the conventional medical diagnosis of their patients and keep records on their treatment.
The bill also envisages a chamber of alternative and complementary medicine practitioners, which would award licences to practitioners. The chamber and practitioners would be supervised by the Health Ministry, Brucan explained.

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