Macau’s first hospital for Chinese medicine just opened:
“Macau’s first traditional Chinese medicine hospital opens Saturday at the Macau University of Science and Technology.
Macau and Hong Kong have vied to become centers of research and commerce for Chinese medicine, but this is the first such hospital in either SAR.
It will be a training hospital for MUST’s Faculty of Chinese Medicine and the Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health. The faculty, which runs in cooperation with Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has about 300 students pursuing bachelor and doctorate degrees in Chinese medicine and biomedicine. More degree programs are planned.
The purpose of the hospital, MUST vice rector Zhou Li Gao said, “is to show the advantages of Chinese medicine, even as an adjunct to Western practices like surgery.”
Until now, MUST sent students to mainland hospitals to gain experience. MUST opened an outpatient clinic three years ago, but the new 60-bed hospital will provide wider scope for treatment and training. MUST plans to recruit about 100 more doctors and nurses for the new facility.
Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health director Timothy Chan, former dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California, said research will benefit from the support of the Macau government. “People [here] are more inclined to make it work,” he said. “We are better able to establish a network, and that’s the key to the success of this.”"
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