medical practices had been introduced and flourishing it is well accepted and utilized by the
people throughout the history. With encouragement of the State scientific ways of assessing the
efficacy of therapeutic agents, nurturing of famous and rare medicinal plants, exploring,
sustaining and propagation of treatises and practices can be accomplished. There are a total of
14 traditional hospitals run by the State in the country. Traditional medical practitioners have
been trained at an Institute of Traditional Medicine and with the establishment of a new
University of Traditional Medicine conferring the bachelor and master degrees more competent
practitioners can now be trained and utilized. As in the allopathic medicine there are quite a
number of private traditional practitioners and they are licensed and regulated in accordance
with the provisions of related laws.