The medical community, especially the Association of Physician Specialists Medical Acupuncture (PDAI) echoed the importance of acupuncture in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals program goals (MDGs) to improve human life expectancy Indonesia.
"Acupuncture plays a major role to improve the quality of life of Indonesia and to support the achievement of the MDGs. For example, acupuncture has a role of promotive and preventive. Promotive health was improving, when increased health and quality of life expectancy will increase," said the chairman of the Central PDAI Abdurrohim Pack.
Pack continued, in an effort to improve health, acupuncture is able to contribute greatly as it is considered to have minimal side effects compared to drug patents.
"Because of the side effects of drugs, instead of increasing life expectancy, but declined because of side effects increases. But if the acupuncture is very minimal side effects," he said.
Minimal side effects in question, Pack explains, is the hematoma. After the patient was stabbed with the needle will not bleed, but such a wound hematoma.
"Cipto Hospital was less than 5% incidence of hematoma. That means no major side effects," he said.
In addition, expresses, beyond a purely conventional acupuncture, efforts to increase life expectancy can not be maximized. One visible indication of the still high cost of drugs. For people who are less capable in terms of economy, pay for expensive drugs is tantamount to reducing the life expectancy because they are unable to reach them.
"Acupuncture is low cost but if another doctor without medicine baseball right if possible. Well, it varies can be expensive drug can be cheap and if the trend of society taunya certainly expensive patented drugs," he said.
Acupuncture, he added, also have almost no contraindications. In contrast to drugs that generally have a contraindication for consumers who consume them.
Sources: http://www.mediaindonesia.com/mediahidupsehat
