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Strengths/Success Factors

1. Sending TTM doctors to study medication formulations from other sites to
enhance knowledge and skills.

2. Collaborating with other organisations, such as universities, to analyse reserpine

content in Rauwolfia root and in Ya Rayom Lom Soong.
3. Collaborating with other healthcare professionals, such as medical doctors
and pharmacists.

4. Planning for future research and data collection on the use of Ya Rayom Lom

Soong.

Recommendations for continued development: To ensure quality and supply of the
medication to meet the demand of antihypertensive market
• Select raw materials directly from farmers, bypassing middlemen, and determine

alternative cultivation sources for future large-scale production.

• Improve the production process.
• Expand distribution sites.

6. Watthana Nakhon Hospital, Sa Kaeo Province

(2022 National Excellent Model of Community Hospital, Diamond Level)
Best practice: Intermediate Care (IMC) Patient Rehabilitation Centre

Background and Significance of the Problem:

Stroke is a significant public health problem worldwide, with an increasing number

of patients in Thailand each year. Sa Kaeo Provincial Health Office developed provincial
Thai traditional medicine (TTM) service plan and designated Watthana Nakhon Hospital
as the Rehabilitation Centre for stroke patients in 2014. The hospital therefore developed

Clinical Practice Guideline on comprehensive rehabilitation programme for stroke patients

and later became the Intermediate Care Rehabilitation Centre for stroke patients. In
addition, the hospital also developed an “intermediate care rehabilitation system”, most
beneficial for patients in three disease groups, namely stroke patients, traumatic brain

injury (TBI) patients, and spinal cord injury patients. The goal is at least 70% of these

groups of patients can get access to the screening and assessment of their conditions
and continuously receive rehabilitation for a period of six months after the incidence,
through the collaboration between Thai traditional medical doctors, alternative medicine
Thailand
practitioners, and multidisciplinary teams. The care can be provided in various settings,

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