Portugal has regulated seven CAM professions. The legislative procedure is almost concluded. At the present moment there is some delay on its conclusion and therefore the Portuguese Federation of CAM Schools (that IMT founded in 2014) is organizing a public protest on the 4th of June so that the Portuguese government concludes the process by:
· Allowing practitioners to request their license to practice (those that were working prior to 2013 already have theirs but due to the governments delay, all those that entered the market after 2013 are still waiting)
· Allowing homeopathy regulatory status to be concluded (all the others already are, namely Acupuncture, Osteopathy, Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine, Chiropractic’s and Traditional Chinese Medicine)
· Allowing the CAM schools to initiate transition to higher degree institutions as was defined by prior legislation (it’s 4 years late, and counting)
The Portuguese case could have an important domino effect in other countries.
So what we ask of you is for you to give your support to our mutual cause and sign your name on this petition. All you need to do is to click on the green ‘Assinar Petiçao’. There is the option of signing using your facebook account if you have one, and it takes just seconds to do so.
http://peticaopublica.com/mobile/pview.aspx?pi=PT88423
The Facebook event page for this is: https://www.facebook.com/events/386996385118612/
We would be very grateful if you could share this information with your members.
Here is a list of some of the organisations that have already given their support:
Portuguese organizations:
AEAR – Associação Europeia de Acupunctura Ryodoraku
AEESMTC – Associação de Estudantes da Escola de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa
AEUMC – Associação de Estudantes UMC
AIMH – Associação Internacional de Medicina Homeopática
AIO – Associação Independente de Osteopatia
AMO – Associação Internacional de Medicina Osteopática
ANACTA – Associação Nacional de Acupunctura e Terapias Associadas
APAMTC – Associação Profissional de Acupunctura e Medicina Tradicional Chinesa
APFC – Associação Portuguesa de Fitoterapia Clássica
APNA – Associação Portuguesa de Naturopatia
APPA – Associação Portuguesa dos Profissionais de Acupunctura
APSANA- Associação Europeia de Profissionais de Saúde Natural
APSN – Associação Internacional de Naturopatia e Disciplinas Associadas
ASPENAT – Associação Profissional de Especialistas Naturopatas
CFFMNC – Conselho Federativo – Federação de Medicinas Não Convencionais
ESMTC – Escola de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa
IIHC – Instituto Internacional de Homeopatia Clássica
IMT – Instituto de Medicina Tradicional
IPN – Instituto Português de Naturologia
IVN Portugal – Associação de Medicina Energética
MC-TNC – Movimento Cívico das Terapêuticas Não Convencionais
UE-TNC – União de Estudantes das Terapêuticas Não Convencionais
UMC – Escola de Medicina Chinesa Dr. Pedro Choy
UMN – União das Medicinas Naturais
Foreign organizations:
AEP- Associación Española de Psiconeuroacupuntura (Spain)
AIPPMCM – Associação dos Investigadores Praticantes e Promotores da Medicina Chinesa de Macau (Macao/China)
FEMTC – Fundacion Europea de Medicina Tradicional China (Spain)
IEACP – Instituto Español de Acupuntura Científica y Psiconeuroacupuntura (Spain)
Instituto Long Tao (Brazil)
MBI – Medicina Biológica Integrativa (Argentina)
PEFOTS – Pan European Federation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Holland)
PR – Practitioners Register (Spain)
SATOESP – Sindicato dos Acupunturistas e Terapeutas Orientais do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil)
TM – Traditional Medisin (Spain)