Prague, March 29 (CTK) – Former Czech prime minister Petr Necas has reached agreement on cooperation between the Delta medical holding and Tongrentang, China’s largest state medical facility, server IHNED.cz writes yesterday.
Tongrentang opened a private clinic of traditional Chinese medicine in Prague and it plans to add more. Necas is negotiating about other deals with China, the server writes.
Necas told it that the negotiations on cooperation between the Czech firm and the Chinese facility started in the spring of 2015 and Tongrentang started to operate in the Czech Republic at the end of last year.
“It has launched a joint venture (with Delta medical holding) in this country and it has the first clinic in Prague. It wants to gradually extend the clinics network, offer traditional Chinese medicaments and also penetrate into the Czech spa industry,” Necas said.
Chinese traditional medicine has also been offered by the Teaching University in Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia, since last year.
IHNED.cz writes that the Chinese government previously promised Hradec Kralove to build a Chinese medicine clinic on the hospital’s premises, worth 250 million crowns.
Delta medical holding is a part of the Delta Capital Group of Michael Broda, with which Necas has been cooperating for some time following his withdrawal from politics in 2013 according to the media.
In China, he has been holding negotiations for the group in several fields, including forestry and the use of biomass in energy.
Necas withdrew from politics after his centre-right coalition government fell in June 2013 amid a scandal. He also resigned as the Civic Democrats’ (ODS) chairman.
President Milos Zeman, in an interview he granted to the Chinese television station CCTV in connection with the current visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Czech Republic, criticised the Czech Republic’s bad relations with China during Necas’s rule (2010-13).
Necas dismissed Zeman’s criticism. “It was the government I headed that started the trend towards a more pragmatic policy in relation to China,” Necas texted to CTK on Monday.
