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. 2022 Jan 25;22:102. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-07497-2

Table 4.

History of transition of traditional prenatal care services to the primary health care level

Year Main Contents
2006 Introduction of Traditional Prenatal Care (TPC) services at selected government hospitals
2012 Introduction of TPC services for primary care in the state of Johore (pilot project)
2014 Expansion of TPC services to the state of Kelantan (pilot project)
2015 Kick-off TPC at the primary health care level in KK Meranti, Kelantan
2016 Decision to expand TPC across the country and to all districts in Kelantan
2018 Introduction of the TPC Transformation Plan to transform TPC service and expand it from all related government hospitals to the PHC level; to be administered at clients’ homes at their own expense by private T&CM practitioners. Cessation of TPC services in government hospitals (transferred to the PHC level)
2019 Implementation of the TPC services Transformation Plan (Phase 2). Extension of TPC services to 8 states
2020 Provision of TPC in 15 rural clinics and 89 health clinics in 15 states. First national level T&CM TPC technical meeting