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Conducted Activities of TM

• Continuation of TM services by providing adequate human resources, drugs
and equipment through the LD (AMC), DGHS to the Districts and UHCs.

• Increasing Public Awareness about TM treatment through Traditional Medical

doctors and allied TM support staffs.
• Strengthening of TM services at Government Hospitals at primary, secondary
and tertiary levels.

Achievements
• Best Practices of Traditional Medicine are being provided along with the Western

Medicine in all types of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Level Government

Hospitals.
• As a result, patients are more satisfied taking one stop integrated services from
the same hospital.

• As well as patients are provided with the fresh herbal medications from the

herbal garden, freshly cultivated in front of the every government hospital.
• Patients can identify, collect and use herbs for their primary health conditions
from those herbal gardens with the help of herbal assistants and by the

guidance of TM doctors.

• Moreover, TM doctors are frequently helping patients with their alarming NCD
conditions like HTN, DM, Obesity, Heart Disease, Fatty Liver, Stroke,
Dyslipidaemia, etc., with their valuable lifestyle modification counselling and

suggestions on healthy food guidelines.

• To provide preventive and curative services to the service-recipients at Government
health facilities.
• To motivate the service-recipients about the Unani and Ayurvedic medicine and

treatment along with the conventional allopathic treatment as it is cheap,

affordable, cost-effective and free from side-effects.
• To integrate TM services with the National Health Care delivery systems.
• The Production and Research Unit, GUAMCH is preparing medicine in the

hospital premises and serving the patients on demand.

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