Nandu reporter learned from the official website of the Hong Kong SAR government that on the morning of March 29, a group of 7 experts from the Central Government’s anti-epidemic Chinese medicine expert group arrived in Hong Kong. Meet at Shenzhen Bay Port.
Mainland medical aid to Hong Kong. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang
In the question and answer meeting with the media at the Shenzhen Bay Port, Lin Zhengyue said that traditional Chinese medicine is very effective in treatment. The expert leader and deputy leader of the TCM group who came to Hong Kong this time – Professor Tong Xiaolin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Zhang Zhongde, vice president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, will directly participate in the treatment work. Lin Zhengyue expressed that she hopes to provide directional or policy-oriented expert opinions with the academicians. During the expert’s visit to Hong Kong, a team of Mainland Chinese medicine experts will be arranged to meet with local Chinese medicine practitioners in Hong Kong to discuss the future development of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong.
Carrie Lam mentioned that at this stage, Hong Kong’s epidemic prevention is focusing on “three reductions, three important and one priority”. The use of traditional Chinese medicine to treat severe cases, reduce severe cases and reduce deaths should be very effective. Traditional Chinese medicine is very effective in rehabilitation and conditioning. With the recovery of especially elderly patients, I hope to take advantage of the arrival of the expert group to provide more post-cured rehabilitation services for elderly patients. She said that Hong Kong citizens have generally welcomed the services of traditional Chinese medicine in recent days. On this basis, the introduction of very experienced experts from the mainland will be very helpful to Hong Kong’s anti-epidemic work.
In addition, Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that the need to expand the services of experts from the Chinese Medicine Group to other HA facilities will be reconsidered by the HA. She has already pointed out to Vice President Zhang that there are many cases of infection among elderly patients in the nursing home. If there is time, experts from the Chinese Medicine Group will be invited to the nursing home in Hong Kong to see how to do more work to prevent the elderly from being affected by the elderly. Infection; if there is infection, it can also be treated with traditional Chinese medicine as soon as possible.
Nandu previously reported that since the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong, the central government has sent three groups of experts to Hong Kong, including severe cases and prevention and control. In order to better control the epidemic and treat patients, at the request of the Hong Kong SAR government, The National Health and Medical Commission and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have formed a central anti-epidemic TCM expert team composed of high-level experts to go to Hong Kong to cooperate with the SAR government to provide guidance and advice on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia and the prevention of severe illness.
Writing: Intern Ma Xuan, Southern Metropolis reporter Lin Zipei