PM Prayut stresses need for implementation of Herbal City Project

 

BANGKOK, 10th March 2017 (NNT) - The Prime Minister has stressed the need for the inclusion of the Herbal City Project in the government’s national development plan. He was speaking during his visit to Prachin Buri Province. 

Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha visited Chao Phraya Abhaibhubejhr Hospital in Prachin Buri on Thursday and met with medical personnel, nurses and patients while discussing implementation of the hospital’s Primary Care Cluster project, which is one of the public health system's reform initiatives that the government is focusing on to eliminate the problems of social inequality and to promote better access to state services. 

Then, the Prime Minister traveled to Prachin Ratsadorn-amroong School, which is his old school, to meet with a crowd of residents awaiting his visit. 

Gen. Prayut told locals that the government has recognized the potential of Prachin Buri and stands ahead to provide supports in many areas, especially the tourism sector. 

He stated that the government is determined to further develop both the industrial sector and the herbal medicine sector through the Pracha Rat policy, which emphasizes the importance of the development of the grassroots economy and its connection with national economic development. 

Later, Gen. Prayut received an update on the province’s public health work and the progress of the Herbal City Project at Chao Phraya Abhaibhubejhr Hospital. 

He said that, as the hospital is famous for its Thai traditional medicine and the use of Thai herbs, the government plans to help expand these practices to gain wider market acceptance and to help develop more Thai herbal medicines to meet international standards, with an aim to set up a Herbal City in 12 areas and to boost the worth of herbal products to 320 billion baht.

 

-- nnt 2017-03-10

I can sense another hub in the making.?

I sense a government white elephant project--lots of money spent without adequate accountability, little or nothing to show for it.

Sorry PM, but herbal medicines do not have international standards...! I suppose anything to make a fake buck...I better stop now before I get blasted off the face of Christmas, AGAIN.

13 hours ago, webfact said:

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13 hours ago, webfact said:

Herbal

If he got the marketing of the green weed then 'they would come'. A field of dreams for some, but cash cow for the Government.

Herbal 'medicine' that actually works got tested, analyzed, and had its active components extracted and sold in carefully measured doses  as 'conventional' medicine by pharmaceutical companies years ago.

 

There's a myth that Big Pharma is scared of herbs, but this is rubbish. Many producers of herbal 'medicines' are produced by subsidiaries of pharmaceutical companies. The suits who run them actually love 'alternative medicine' because it lets them make money without having to go through the immense effort and expense of bringing a drug to the market.

 

Of course, the way things are going, in the US they may not have to do that for much longer. So, have fun with that.