A professor here has put forward a proposal for Chinese medicine to operate alongside western medicine at Hong Kong's public hospitals in order to treat severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
In an article appearing in the Chinese-language Ta Kung Po newspaper here Tuesday, Li Zhizhong, a visiting professor of the School of Chinese Medicine at the Hong Kong Baptist University, has once again called on the Hong Kong government to institute the combined Chinese and western medicine treatment for SARS patients here.
He proposed that while the intensive care unit for rescuing SARS patients should continue to adopt western medicine, the ordinary wards should combine western medicine treatment with Chinese medicine treatment in shortening the pathology of SARS andminimizing the number of patients in need of treatment at the intensive care units.
Li also recommended that efforts of the schools of Chinese medicine at the three major universities in Hong Kong be coordinated to work with western medicine experts in diagnostic and therapeutic processes.
He said Chinese medicine should be further popularized for health maintenance in Hong Kong.
(Xinhua News Agency May 13, 2003)
