EU YAN SANG (HONG KONG) LIMITED - TCM in SARS Aid Initiative
Eu Yan Sang (Hong Kong) Limited today announces a series of community initiatives to use traditional Chinese medicine ("TCM") as an alternative option to help Hong Kong people prevent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ("SARS").
(PRWEB) April 19, 2003
Hong Kong, April 17, 2003 - Eu Yan Sang (Hong Kong) Limited today announces a series of community initiatives to use traditional Chinese medicine ("TCM") as an alternative option to help Hong Kong people prevent Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ("SARS").
Ms Alice Wong, Managing Director of Eu Yan Sang (Hong Kong) Limited, remarked: "As one of the major TCM industry players rooted in the region, Eu Yan Sang is committed to using our expertise and resources in Chinese medicine to help Hong Kong people fight against this unprecedented outbreak. The TCM industry has a key role to play in supporting the efforts of the Government and academics in Hong Kong's anti-SARS battle."
The Institute of Chinese Medicine ("ICM") of The Chinese University of Hong Kong ("CUHK") yesterday started a research initiative to distribute, in stages, 40,000 free anti-viral TCM sachets to 2,000 interested front-line healthcare workers in the Prince of Wales Hospital and the HA hospitals in the New Territories East Cluster, with the endorsement from the Hospital Authority. Produced in a convenient form of granules, the innovative TCM formula aims to offer an option for SARS prevention and ICM will monitor the trial results.
Ms Wong continued: "We fully support this initiative led by Prof PC Leung, who has worked with various TCM experts in Hong Kong and China in developing this new anti-viral TCM formula. This is also a proactive and constructive move by the TCM industry to pay tribute to our front-line medical and nursing teams. The Chinese medical stream believes that prevention for healthy citizens is as important as treatment for patients. The use of herbal medicine, which is generally effective in improving health conditions and self-protective strengths of human beings, will help ease the pace of the outbreak."
Eu Yan Sang will initiate discussions with the ICM of CUHK regarding further support of this programme. "We will leverage our GMP-certified manufacturing facilities to further this initiative with a view to benefiting more people in the community," concluded Ms Wong.
As part of its TCM in SARS Aid initiative, Eu Yan Sang has also donated anti-viral TCM products to Kwong Wah Hospital and TVB for distribution to front-line medical and nursing staff, voluntary groups and disadvantaged citizens. Donations of anti-viral herbal medicine worth more than HK$500,000 have been made to date.
About Eu Yan Sang Group (SES: EYSI)
Listed on the Singapore Exchange, Eu Yan Sang International Limited is a progressive, global healthcare company with its core focus in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Eu Yan Sang dedicates its business to the pursuit of offering the best natural healthcare products and services to its customers.
Today, the Company manufactures and markets fine quality, Chinese herbs and medicine under the brand name "Eu Yan Sang." A household name in Asia for over 120 years, Eu Yan Sang has since earned an unrivalled reputation as the leader in the traditional Chinese medicine industry.
The Group currently offers more than 150 products under its Eu Yan Sang brand name and over 1000 different types of Chinese herbs and other medicinal products. Manufacturing activities are carried out primarily at its two Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)-certified factories located in Malaysia and Hong Kong, the latter which was accredited by both the Therapeutic Goods Administration of Australia and ISO9001:2000 by Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency. They produce a wide range of powder, pill and capsule products, including its flagship products, Bak Foong Pill and Bo Ying Compound.
Eu Yan Sang's products are readily available in its own 72 retail stores spread across Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, as well as in over 5,000 drugstores, supermarkets and chain stores worldwide.
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