Western and Chinese medicine traditions join forces in more Hong Kong hospitals to treat cancer, strokes, muscle and bone pain
- There are now 26 hospitals offering a fusion of traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat a range of conditions, up from 8 last year
- Hospital Authority says the joint teams have 53 service points and can treat 30,000 patients a year
Cancer and stroke patients can now get Western and Chinese medicine treatments at 26 Hong Kong public hospitals under a service expansion that also covers people with bone and muscle pain.
The Hospital Authority on Thursday said the Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine Programme had been expanded from eight public hospitals to 26 in the first quarter of the year and covered 53 service points across the city.
“We estimate that we can serve 30,000 patients a year,” Rowena Wong How-wan, the authority’s chief manager of Chinese medicine, said.
“We will also explore the possibility of further expanding the collaborative programme in terms of degenerative diseases and respiratory diseases as our population continues to age.”
She added the authority hoped to introduce pilot programmes in new disease areas this year.
