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Republic Act No. 8423
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YOU ARE HERE: HOME (HTTP://PITAHC.GOV.PH) › ABOUT US (HTTP://PITAHC.GOV.PH/… REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8423
AN ACT CREATING THE PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE HEALTH
CARE (PITAHC) TO ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE
HEALTH CARE IN THE PHILIPPINES, PROVIDING FOR A TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE
HEALTH CARE DEVELOPMENT FUND AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled::
Section 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act
(TAMA) of 1997.”
ARTICLE I
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Section 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is hereby declared the policy of the State to improve the quality
and delivery of health care services to the Filipino people through the development of traditional and
alternative health care and its integration into the national health care delivery system.
It shall also be the policy of the State to seek a legally workable basis by which indigenous societies
would own their knowledge of traditional medicine. When such knowledge is used by outsiders, the
indigenous societies can require the permitted users to acknowledge its source and can demand a
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