THOUSANDS of Chinese medical practitioners have been urged to submit their names, ages, qualifications and other details for enrolment on a territory-wide database.
The Preparatory Committee on Chinese Medicine announced yesterday it had drawn up enrolment forms as the first step to registering the 4,000 to 10,000 Chinese medical practitioners.
Committee secretary Beatrice Leung Yuen Kit-ming said the data would be analysed and recommendations on registration would be put to the Government.
'This will enhance their status, so it's for their own benefit to enrol,' Ms Leung said.
However, practitioners who enrolled would not gain automatic registration while those who failed to enrol now would not be barred from registration.
Meanwhile the working group on Chinese medicine, reported it had begun a reassessment of 51 herbs deemed 'potent'.