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Table 2: Number of health service facilities and TM professionals providing TM service
under the Ministry of Public Health

Practitioners
Service units (person)
with
Service personnel of
Departmental-level offices and
No. units TTM and
academic institute under MoPH
(places) alternative TTM/Applied TTM practitioners TCM doctors** Acupuncturists**
medicine
(places)

1 Office of the Total 2,489 3,476 179 777
Permanent
Provincial Public
Secretary, 76 67 131 - -
Health Offices
Ministry of
Central Hospitals 35 34 189 204
Public Health*
General Hospitals 91 88 288 227
179
Community
Hospitals 775 770 1,762 346

Tambon (sub-district)
Health Promotion 9,765 1,449 998 - -
Hospitals

District Public 878 - - - -
Health Offices
Health centres 41 81 108 - -

2 Department of Medical Services 1 1 3
3 Department of Thai Traditional and
Alternative Medicine 24 91 11
4 Department of Mental Health 14 18 1

5 Department of Health Service 7 9 - 122
Support
6 Food and Drug Administration 1 2 -

7 Phra Boromrajchanok Institute 10 57 -
9 Department of Health 12 - - 8

Total 2,552 3,654 202 899

* The number of personnel under the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health from the
Human Resource Office of the Permanent Secretary, as of October 1, 2022.
** The number of TCM doctors and MD acupuncturists providing TCM service, as of May 2022, was given
Thailand
by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Institute, DTAM.

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