Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
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The two systems of traditional and Western medicine need not clash. Within the context of primary health care, they can blend together in a beneficial harmony, using the best features of each system, and compensating for certain weaknesses in each. Many countries have brought the two systems together in highly effective ways. In several countries where health systems are organized around primary health care, traditional medicine is well integrated and provides a backbone of much preventive care and treatment of common ailments. |
