Medical Services Activities

Some KOM doctors render the medical services without charge to

those in the lower income brackets, the aged and infirm of the

country. Others organized Korean Medicine Service Team

Abroad(KOMSTA) in 1993 and have been in full blast in sending over 90

medical service teams to more than 27 countries, as of 2008,

establishing Korean Oriental Medicine hospitals, where they have

left good impression of KOM on the peoples of the world through the

humanitarian activities. Besides the short-term services, Traditional

Korean Medicine doctors named ‘Government delegate doctor’or

‘International cooperation doctor’are dispatched to foreign countries by

the government and take medical treatment for the term of two years

in the hospital designated by the country concerned. This project is a

part of the international cooperation of the Korea International

Cooperation Agency(KOICA).

Public Health Project of Korean Oriental Medicine

The project is to enhance health of the residents of the community by

providing them with medical care and health improving programs of

Korean Oriental Medicine at the public health center. It is designed

to meet the increased demand for the KOM due to the growing

number of patients of chronic and intractable diseases and the ageing

of the population. Some KOM doctors were committed to the public

health center in farming and fishing area in 1998 and the enforced

area was extended to 191 public health centers in 2007. The

government financially and administratively support the project.