Expert Proposes Combined Western, Chinese Medicine for SARS
Treatment


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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).

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 and
minimizing 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.