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To date COCHASA has made significant progress in lobbying and achieving the potential for complementary approaches to be included within the national health system. It has:
- successfully motivated complementary health practitioners to organise themselves into cohesive associations, each with a scope of practice, code of ethics and standards of training
- lobbied for and helped achieve an interim Chiropractors, Homeopaths and Allied Health Service Professions Council
- assisted Aromatherapy, Ayurveda, Massage Therapy and Reflexology Associations to achieve therapeutic statutory recognition via the Allied Health Professions Council
- lobbied for appropriate legislation in respect of complementary approaches (ongoing)
- lobbied for recognition of member associations by medical aids (ongoing)
- assisted in the coordination of input into the revision of the Medicines Control Council
- lobbied for and achieved the inclusion of complementary approaches in the ANC National Health Plan and in the Eastern Cape Health Plan.
- cooperated in the preparation of submissions regarding the Traditional Health Practitioners draft Bill
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