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Table 3: Number of health service facilities in private sector and TM professionals
providing TM services*

Practitioners (persons)
Service Service
Service units with units with
Types of health
No. units TTM TCM
service facilities
(places) practitioners doctors TTM practitioners Applied TTM practitioners TCM doctors** Acupuncturist**
(places) (places)

1 Private hospitals 411 17 84

2 Traditional
Thai Medicine 1,143 -
Clinics

Applied 1,297
Traditional 208 -
Clinics Thai Medicine 1,620 405 172 519
Clinics

Co-clinics 854 - -

Traditional
Chinese
Medicine 425 - 425
Clinics
Total 2,616 1,314 2,025

* The number of health service facilities and traditional medicine professionals from the Sanatorium and
Art of Healing Division, Department of Health Service Support, as of April 2021.
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** The number of TCM doctors and MD acupuncturists providing TCM service, as of April 2022, was given
by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Institute, DTAM.

6. Educational systems of traditional medicine

TTM educational system
There are two educational systems to train TTM professionals, namely:
(1) Study at institutions with TTMC certification and in health care facilities

with trained TTM instructors.

This is one of the two training systems to prepare future TTM practitioners
(but not ATTM practitioners). TTM institutes or TTM health care facilities
that have been approved by TTMC would provide training for those who

want to become TTM practitioners. As of March, 2023 there are 105 TTM

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