Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Chairs Cabinet's Session

SPA - The Minister noted that the Cabinet reviewed a number of topics on its agenda and issued the following decisions:
Having reviewed the 99th minutes of the Ministerial Committee for
Administrative Organization on Alternative and Complementary
Medicine, the cabinet approved a number of decisions including:
First: Establishing a national centre for alternative and
complementary medicine within the Ministry of Health.

The center shall be a national body to which all issues related to the activities of alternative and complementary medicine shall be
referred. The center shall be directly linked to the Minister of
Health.

Second: Seeking help from a consultative committee of officials and
specialists in alternative and complementary medicine comprising
representatives of a number of ministries, public institutions and
government bodies concerned with health affairs in addition to the
private sector.

The Centre shall get help from experts in the field of complementary and alternative medicine from abroad.

Third: The center shall undertake the following tasks:
1- Developing the foundations, standards, requirements and controls
for practicing the profession of alternative and complementary
medicine.

2- Conducting surveys, studies and research on complementary and
alternative medicine.
3- Issuing licenses for the practice of alternative and complementary
medicine.

4- Developing controls and standards to maintain the documentation of
alternative and complementary medicine, especially Islamic and Arab
medicine.