The resurgence in interest in traditional medicine in the past decade has been paralleled by increasing attention to challenges posed by the co-existence of multiple, divergent forms of health care. In 2002 the World Health Organisation launched its first global strategy on traditional medicine, with an aim to integrate traditional medicine into national health systems globally (WHO 2002). Optimistic as the WHO strategy may be, it has served to highlight many of the obstacles and challenges facing an inclusive health system, where traditional or complementary and Western medicine co-exist. There is potential for looking to existing models of integration, such as the Tibetan health care system in Dharamsala, to learn from their experience (Bodeker 2001).