Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region
The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong (CMHHK) commenced operations in phases today (December 11), offering outpatient and day-patient services, fully launching six specialised Chinese medicine (CM) services, along with 12 special disease programmes in the first year. In response to the keen public demand for government-subsidised outpatient services, the hospital will increase the quota for the members of the public to book government-subsidised general outpatient services in the first month after the service commencement.
The Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, said, “The service commencement of CMHHK marks a significant milestone in the development of CM in our city, signifying the progression of Hong Kong’s CM to go beyond primary healthcare and play a part in secondary and tertiary healthcare services. I look forward to CMHHK providing more comprehensive CM services to the members of the public, and developing a ‘Hong Kong model’ for pure CM, services with CM playing the predominant role and integrated Chinese-Western medicine (ICWM) services. It will also dovetail with the upcoming CM Development Blueprint to be announced by the Government, to foster a high-quality and high-standard development of CM on all fronts, thereby providing powerful impetus for CM to go global.”