Daejeon City Supports Traditional Korean Medicine Infertility Treatment with Up to 1.8 Million Won

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City announced on the 28th that it will recruit candidates for the Korean Medicine Infertility Treatment Expense Support Project on a first-come, first-served basis next month.

Eligibility for support is given to women who have resided in Daejeon for more than six months as of the application date (born after 1979). Applications can be made regardless of income criteria.

However, those who have received government-supported Western infertility treatment expenses must have passed one year from the treatment date to be eligible for support.

Applications must be submitted to the Daejeon Metropolitan Branch of the Korean Medicine Association by the end of next month, along with related documents such as an infertility diagnosis and application form.

The city plans to select 30 recipients through a review process after receiving applications.

Each selected recipient will receive up to 1.8 million KRW per person (for three months) for non-reimbursable herbal medicine expenses, and can receive Korean medicine infertility treatment (herbal medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, counseling, etc.) for three months at 121 designated Korean medicine clinics.

Lee Dong-han, Director of the Health and Welfare Bureau of the city, said, “It has been found that 13% of applicants who participated in last year’s pilot project for Korean medicine infertility treatment expenses actually succeeded in becoming pregnant,” and added, “The city plans to continuously promote the project and gradually expand the scale of support to help families struggling with infertility.”

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