Prague, Sept 21 (CTK) – Two doctors from Shanghai will supervise the operation of two new Chinese traditional medicine surgeries that open in the attic of the state-run University Hospital in Hradec Kralove, east Bohemia, Monday, daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) writes.
The doctors will spend one year in the Czech Republic. Their contact with Czech patients will be mediated by an interpreter.
“However, guarantee will also be provided by Czech experts,” Roman Prymula, director of the hospital, told HN.
“Every patient who will come to the centre will first be examined along western principles so that nothing is overlooked,” Prymula said.
He said the interior is equipped based on the principles of the Feng Shui teaching.
Natural colours are used instead of sterile sheets, everywhere Chinese characters are present, HN writes.
Yet, there are a few differences compared with genuine Chinese clinics. For instance, thinner acupuncture needles are used for Czech patients.
“It has shown that their pain threshold is markedly lower than that of the Chinese,” Prymula said.
He said the choice of herbal plants will be smaller than in China.
In China, doctors work with 3000 plant species, in Hradec Kralove they will only have around 400 species. European rules do not allow the use of more of them, Prymula said.
Each of the two surgeries will treat eight to ten patients daily, HN writes.
It writes that mainly chronic pain, migraine and complications accompanying oncological patients’ cystic treatment will be cured in Hradec Kralove, Prymula said.
Also people suffering from chronic allergic rhyme, insomnia and digestion problems can find help in the surgeries.
In addition to acupuncture and herbal plants, they will also provide diet and rehabilitation.
Czech health insurance companies will only pay the entry examination with common western methods. The costs of acupuncture and plant mixtures will be covered by the patients themselves.
They will range from 400 crowns per acupuncture session to 6,000 crowns for a three-week treatment, HN writes.
A Chinese medicine research centre was opened in Hradec Kralove before the summer holiday. It will focus on selected scientific projects, such as mapping the results attained in treatment by traditional Chinese medicine and European methods, HN writes.
A Chinese medicine clinic is to be built on the land of the Hradec Kralove hospital for 250 million crowns in two years.
Health Minister Svatopluk Nemecek said previously it will be financed by the Chinese government.
After some time a University of Chinese Medicine, a detached workplace of the Shanghai University, should follow, HN writes.
Prymula said the Czech Republic could become the Chinese medicine scientific and education centre for the whole Central and East Europe in the future.
