Chinese medical experts and their Ghanaian counterparts on Thursday promoted the use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ghanaian herbal medicine for women’s health at the Third China-Ghana Traditional Medicine Forum in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Under the theme “Empowering Women, Sharing Health,” the forum explores sustainable traditional medicineContinue Reading
The 26th batch of the Chinese medical team to Sierra Leone on Thursday conducted the second-phase training under its Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) appropriate techniques program for medical students at the Sierra Leone Pingkang Dental College in the capital, Freetown. The session focused on TCM skills and the life-savingContinue Reading
During a remote consultation, Ma Yan, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) expert from northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region currently working in Benin, West Africa, treated a local patient suffering from peripheral facial paralysis via the Sino-Benin TCM telemedicine platform. “The patient, who had been suffering for more thanContinue Reading
Thirty-seven years ago, a brief encounter in a hospital in Burkina Faso changed the life of Bazimo Louis. He watched Chinese doctors use acupuncture to relieve a patient’s back pain, and decided that one day, he would learn Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) himself. Now, Louis, 59, is a renownedContinue Reading
The 26th batch of the Chinese medical team to Sierra Leone collaborated with the Confucius Institute at the University of Sierra Leone to host a cultural exchange event on Wednesday to promote traditional medicine. During the event, the medical team provided specialized health services for senior faculty and staff, whileContinue Reading
“A tiny silver needle, when applied to the right acupoint, can bring notable relief to patients, we have seen this firsthand,” said Mamane Daou, general director of the General Referral Hospital of Niamey. Speaking at a recent training program hosted by his hospital, he described the event as aContinue Reading
