2024-02-17 17:15:00
Mexico City, Mexico, February 16, 2024. Representative Fabiola Rafael Dircio (PRD) proposed reforming articles 6 and 79 of the General Health Law, regarding complementary medicine, with the aim of providing medical alternatives to and the beneficiaries.
The initiative, handed over to the Health Commission for analysis, cites that it is up to the National Health System to “promote the knowledge and use of complementary medicine by encouraging its practice under appropriate conditions.”
He states that it is used as a treatment along with conventional medicine; It does not substitute, on the contrary, it adds to the search for the restoration of health.
He adds that, according to the General Directorate of Health Planning and Development of the Secretariat, complementary or alternative medicine is used to refer to a broad group of health practices that are not part of traditional medicine or are not integrated into the health system. prevailing.
It maintains that there are records that, since 1994, the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) and the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) have taught degrees in homeopathy, acupuncture and philotherapy.
Likewise, in the field of education, homeopathy, herbalism and chiropractic are recognized by the Interinstitutional Commission for the Training of Human Resources in Health, which has incorporated specific commissions on the subject, with the intention of proposing and reviewing policies. educational.
He believes that it is necessary to promote the use of medicine from a comprehensive and diverse aspect, which finds its basis and support in alternative or complementary medicine, because it serves to be a tool to advance and overcome limitations and problems of interculturality, under a order of respect.
It maintains that during the Covid-19 pandemic a significant number of people turned to alternative therapies for their care and recovery. Among the alternative practices that were used were acupuncture, homeopathy, magnets and the use of plants.
Furthermore, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 90 percent of the population has used or uses some medicinal plant. On the other hand, various studies indicate that more than 80 percent of people diagnosed with breast cancer use complementary therapies.
The proposal of representative Rafael Dircio states that the World Health Organization (WHO), in its report “WHO Strategies on traditional medicine 2014-2023”, points out that the use of alternative medicine is increasing, so This interest requires its integration into health systems.
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