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Table 4 History of transition of traditional prenatal care services to the primary health care level

From: Twenty years of traditional and complementary medicine regulation and its impact in Malaysia: achievements and policy lessons

Year

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2006

Introduction of Traditional Prenatal Care (TPC) services at selected government hospitals

2012

Introduction of TPC services for primary care in the state of Johore (pilot project)

2014

Expansion of TPC services to the state of Kelantan (pilot project)

2015

Kick-off TPC at the primary health care level in KK Meranti, Kelantan

2016

Decision to expand TPC across the country and to all districts in Kelantan

2018

Introduction of the TPC Transformation Plan to transform TPC service and expand it from all related government hospitals to the PHC level; to be administered at clients’ homes at their own expense by private T&CM practitioners. Cessation of TPC services in government hospitals (transferred to the PHC level)

2019

Implementation of the TPC services Transformation Plan (Phase 2). Extension of TPC services to 8 states

2020

Provision of TPC in 15 rural clinics and 89 health clinics in 15 states. First national level T&CM TPC technical meeting