The Importance of a Board of Natural Medicine

“Health for All 2000” was declared in 1962 at ALMA ATA with reaffirmation in RIGA. 

What has happened since and the questions being asked.  Reference is made to the declaration and a comparison on statistics in developed countries and developing countries.  Declaration VII-7 defines Primary Health Care which relies at local and referral levels on health workers to include physicians, nurses, midwives, auxiliaries and community workers as applicable as well as traditional practitioners as needed, suitably trained, socially and technically to work as a health team and to respond to the express health needs of the community.

The Board of Natural Medicine was formed in North America to set the standard for Recognition, Registration & Accreditation of Natural Medicine Doctors and practice in North America.  The structure of the EBNMP will be discussed.

The quest for health for all will not end in the year 2000 nor at the year 2100.  There are limits to medicine and the cost of miracles is very expensive.  The International Conference of Primary Health Care calls for urgent and effective national and international action to develop and implement primary health care throughout the world, particularly in developing countries in the spirit of technical co-operation and in keeping with a new international economic order.  It urges governments, WHO and UNICEF and others including all health workers and the whole world community to support P.H.C. and to channel increased technical and financial support to it in accordance with the spirit and the content of the ALMA ATA accord.

“Winds of change are now softly blowing in the fields of natural medicines. 

This re-birth of the medicines of the past will help to humanize the scientific medicine of tomorrow and structure a new futuristic, integrated medicine for the 21st century”

-Jayasuriya(1930-2005)

MBBS, BAMS, NMD, DO.

Doctor of Osteopathy, Natural Medicine and Acupuncture.

Dr. June Ann Kelly was born in the Caribbean Island of Trinidad and received her medical education at the Calcutta Bio-Chemic Medical College in India. June Ann immigrated to Canada in 1988 and graduated from The Commonwealth University of Health Sciences in 1995 and The Toronto Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.

Dr. Kelly is a member of many National and International health organizations. She holds medical degrees in Acupuncture, Osteopathy and Alternative Medicine from The OIUCM as well as a Doctor of Philosophy in Naturopathic Medicine (AMRI), and a fellow in Homeopathy, she is a trained family counselor in private practice at www.instituteofnaturalmedicine.ca in Toronto, Ontario.

In 1998, she co-founded the Examining Board of Natural Medicine; a federally approved organization that is setting the standard for Recognition, Registration & Accreditation of Natural Medicine Doctors and practice in North America.

Currently, she is the President of the E.B.N.M.P. Canada, the VP of the EBNBMP North-America, the Chairperson of www.newearthcollege.org  a private postgraduate teaching institution for natural medicine sciences; as well as a visiting professor of The Sichuan Provincial Academy of TCM - Institute of Acupuncture (China). Dr. Kelly helped to develop the Myomeridian Methodology of Trigenics©, and is an advisor on educational standards of Ayurveda and Neurotherapy in North America.