Announcement of the QATCMA Board 理事會聲明

10 years ago, QATCMA was established with the mission to unite TCM community with initial concept of “One Voice”. It is QATCMA’s funding responsibility to strive for and maintain the rights of TCM practitioners and acupuncturists. QATCMA has participated in promoting unity of TCM community by composing Constitution to allow the community to communicate based on a platform. However, we found minority has altered the initial union’s Constitution that had signed and agreed by all associations. We disagreed with the idea of having another association composed by non-president representatives, reminded that the history had taught us a lesson and that many associations were named as “united, headquarter, and world” etc. that may carried with the same attempt. Therefore the QATCMA Board resolved that not to join UTCM at the recent February Board meeting.

The QATCMA held the majority registered Acupuncturists and TCM practitioners in BC. All the Boards had been working very hard for professional’s development in the past 10 years. Finally the MSP plan accepted our proposal of last May to include certain funding for the low income group started April 2008. This was a good starting point for the continuing campaign of the professional milestone. We greatly improved our reputation through organizing international standard symposiums, and also different charity activities. Recently, we strongly voiced out our concerns at the recent bill C51 hearing for the regards of its impacts to the TCM industry. We opposed to the confused areas, and had the authority’s clarification. Therefore, we can see that QATCMA performs a leading position in BC to fight for professional’s right and functions.
We heartily congratulate the establishment of UTCM, and wish more participants in future professional activities. We would like to see that all TCM professionals are really united and enrolling the TCM campaigns for community rights in one unity, and then it’s time for QATCMA to bow out just like the time when Alliance merged with QATCMA.

早在十年前 “ONE VOICE” 團結中醫業界，即是QATCMA成立的宗旨﹔爭取並維護中醫針灸醫師的權益，更是QATCMA成立的責任。成立聯盟憲章(Constitution)作為業內各公(學)會溝通平台，以達到團結中醫業界的架構組織，亦是QATCMA參與發起推動的工作，由於得到BC省全體出席聯盟的各公(學)會共同簽字承認的原聯盟憲章，遭部分人予以更改，同時我們不同意由非各公會會長組成的另一個公(學)會，因為歷史告訴我們，那將無法達成團結的目的，環顧目前各會具有United、Headquarter、World等整合的名稱者比比皆是，將重蹈步入失敗的歷史過程。因此，今年二月在理事會中經全體出席理事無記名表決，全數通過決議，QATCMA與其他三個會不再參與UTCM的組織。

QATCMA是BC省最多會員的註冊中醫師、針灸師公會，經過漫長十年的努力，去年五月我們向政府建議，爭取中醫針灸納入MSP健保低收入輔助計劃，並於今年四月一日實施，為中醫針灸帶入新里程，舉辦各項國際學術講座，提昇中醫學術水平，參與各項慈善活動，塑造中醫社會形象。最近為維護中醫藥的完整性及其發展，防範聯邦C-51法案，帶給中醫藥界的衝擊與傷害，參與發起反對C-51法案，希望獲得聯邦政府的澄清，化危機為轉機。QATCMA是BC省真正為中醫師、針灸師爭取維護權益的團體，真正發揮公會應有的功能。

我們祝賀UTCM的成立，歡迎有更多人為中醫的發展而努力，在UTCM的運作能夠真正達到團結中醫界的時候，真正為爭取及維護中醫針灸師的權益之際，也就是QATCMA達成目標，功成身退之時，如同合併於QATCMA的ALLIANCE (聯合會) 走入歷史之時。