Chinese or Western medicine? Hong Kong to help residents decide

Hong Kong health authorities will guide residents on when to seek Chinese medicine treatment, identifying conditions where it is considered more effective than Western practice under the sector’s development blueprint. Commissioner for Chinese Medicine Development Vincent Chung Chi-ho said on Saturday that only 9 per cent of the city’s about 10,000 Chinese medicine practitioners were using eHealth, the government’s electronic medical record platform. He added that authorities would step up...