Health services:
Secretary for Food & Health Dr Ko Wing-man (right) listens to the briefing by the Chief Executive Officer of a Chinese medicine clinic in Kötzting Anton Staudinger on the facilities and operation of the clinic during a visit in Germany.
Health services:
Secretary for Food & Health Dr Ko Wing-man (right) listens to the briefing by the Chief Executive Officer of a Chinese medicine clinic in Kötzting Anton Staudinger on the facilities and operation of the clinic during a visit in Germany.
Health chief begins German visit
May 19, 2013
Secretary for Food & Health Dr Ko Wing-man inspected a Chinese medicine clinic in Kotzting, Germany, yesterday.
He met the clinic's Chief Executive Officer Anton Staudinger, who said the facility is the first of its kind in Germany, rendering therapeutical services in the form of hospital treatments.
The clinic, with 80 hospital beds, was set up in 1991 through co-operation between the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and a German entrepreneur.
Dr Ko was briefed on the development of Chinese medicine, including herbal and proprietary medicine, in Germany and the government policies on promoting Chinese medicine.
Dr Ko told Mr Staudinger that the Chinese Medicine Development Committee, chaired by himself, was set up in January this year to give recommendations to the Government concerning the direction and long-term strategy of the future development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong.
Before touring the clinic, Dr Ko was invited by the mayor of Kotzting to sign the Golden Guest Book.
Dr Ko will attend the World Health Organisation's 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva tomorrow.
