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Second Meeting Of The Sino-Singapore Committee On TCM Cooperation
20 September 2001
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20 Sep 2001
The second meeting of the Sino-Singapore Committee on TCM Cooperation was successfully held in Beijing on 20 Sep 2001 between the Singapore delegation and representatives of PRC's State Administration of TCM (SATCM). Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Health) Mr Chan Soo Sen led the Singapore delegation comprising 3 senior officials from the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Branch of the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The Sino-Singapore Committee on TCM Cooperation was set up as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on TCM signed between MOH Singapore and SATCM in July 1999 in Beijing. Under the MOU, PRC agrees to share expertise in developing and regulating TCM practice and Singapore will share with PRC information on TCM regulation and research, the development of TCM in Singapore and will train personnel from PRC in health management.
The Committee aims to formulate cooperation plans and facilitate the mutual exchange of information and expertise on matters pertaining to the teaching, practice and regulation of TCM between the two countries. The first meeting of the Committee was held on 22 Aug 2000 in Singapore when PRC's Vice-Minister for Health Prof Zhu Qingsheng led the PRC delegation then.
As part of the MOU, a health management programme was organised for 8 PRC health administrators in Singapore in July 2001. Several PRC TCM experts have also been invited to Singapore to advise MOH on the registration of acupuncturists in 2000 and 2001.
The second meeting of the Committee agreed to continue with such mutual exchanges as follows:
(a) MOH will organise the second health management programme in Singapore in the first quarter of 2002;
(b) MOH will consider organising more of such health management programmes in future if the need arises;
(c) SATCM will send TCM experts to advise MOH on the registration of TCM practitioners; and
(d) SATCM will send Chinese medicinal materials (CMM) experts to advise MOH on the setting up of a training course to train local CMM dispensers.
The Singapore TCM Practitioners Board supports and welcomes the invitation of PRC experts to advise MOH and the Board on the registration of TCM practitioners and the setting up of a training course to train local CMM dispensers.
The two memos on the invitation of TCM and CMM experts to Singapore are at Annexes A (7.31 KB) & B (6.87 KB).
