accrediting acupuncturists

Acupuncturists participated in a public hearing of the implementing rules and regulations of the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997 (RA8423) for the accreditation of acupuncturists. The landmark law allows non-doctors to practice acupuncture thereby allowing a highly effective form of treatment accessible to more people. Below are photos of participants, majority of whom are non-doctors and come from community-based health programs, treating each other just before the start of the second day of public hearings.

IT IS NOT A HAIRSTYLING SEMINAR.

sis. gloria receiving acupuncture treatment from one of her students.
sis. gloria is not grimacing in pain. that is just the way she is when she proudly demonstrates what her former students, now full-time acupuncturists, can do. sis. gloria was actually a nurse before she became a nun. she holds an acupuncture clinic and training center for the poor in pandacan.
administering scalp acupuncture which they recently learned from a visiting renowned american acupuncturist.