Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine - DLSHSI

The Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CCIM) envisions a health care delivery system that incorporates and allows the use of safe, affordable and appropriate indigenous / alternative forms of healing at par with western medicine.

It believes in the roles of traditional health practitioners as the original partners of the government in addressing the issue of sustainable health development. Its task is to provide the training and research of complementary and alternative medicine in the country.

Its goals are to preserve and validate the cultural heritage found in indigenous medicine and the integration of indigenous/alternative health practices into the primary health care system of the country. Specifically, its objectives are as follows:

1. To conduct research on different aspects of indigenous health practices.
2. To promote viable indigenous/alternative forms of healing practices that are safe, efficacious, and appropriate in the primary health care setting
3. To harness resources for training on indigenous health practices and production of educational materials for public information.