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Best Practice of

Bangladesh

• In 1999, the then Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina first introduced the
recruitment of 30 Unani & Ayurvedic Medical Officers at District level

Government hospitals.
• In continuation of this process, in 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2020, 348 TM

Medical Officers have been recruited successfully.
• The present public-friendly Government thus keen to develop the Alternative

Medical Care Services along with the Allopathic system of medicine to ensure
quality, equitable & affordable health care for all citizens of Bangladesh.

Objectives of TM
To strengthen Unani & Ayurvedic Systems of Medicine along with the Allopathic

Medicine throughout the country to ensure quality and equitable health care for all
citizens of Bangladesh.

Development Strategy of TM
• Infrastructural Development in Health Care System: Government has appointed

Unani and Ayurvedic physician in government health centres along with
allopathic physician in the same infra-structure. Current total appointed TM

Manpower is 264 (Asst. Professor., Lecturer, Registrar, Asst. Registrar,
Radiologist, Production and Quality Control Officer, RP, RMO, IMO, MO.),

who are providing services in the Medical Colleges, and various Government
hospitals of different primary, secondary and tertiary level hospitals. Bangladesh

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