China to help build integrated (East and West) hospitals
China will help Malaysia build hospitals that integrate Chinese and Western medicine:
“China has agreed to help Malaysia set up integrated hospitals that incorporate Western, traditional and complementary medicine (TCM), said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.
The ministry, together with officers from local universities and the National Accreditation Board, has met health ministry officials from China to see if the universities there could provide training and short-term courses to Malaysian doctors, he said.
Dr Chua said discussions were based on a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two countries last year.
“We went to three universities and they agreed to accept our Western-trained doctors for short-term courses and exposure,” he said yesterday.
Likewise, the universities would send their doctors to Malaysia to help set up integrated hospitals.
Dr Chua was at a ceremony to hand over RM2mil on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Department to Tung Shin Hospital for its RM25mil Chinese Medical Building fund.
“The integrated hospitals there are well established and recognised worldwide.
“The Health Ministry, State Administration of TCM and local Bureaus of TCM monitor them centrally and diagnosis is based on modern medicine while both Western medicine and TCM treatment are used,” said Dr Chua. “
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