Secretary for Health to lead delegation to attend 5th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Conference on Inheritance, Innovation and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine

     The Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, will lead a delegation to Foshan today (September 13) to attend the 5th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) Conference on Inheritance, Innovation and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with a view to continuing the drive for the construction of the Chinese medicine (CM) highlands in the GBA as well as exchanges and co-operation in the area of CM.
 
     The conference is co-organised by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau of Guangdong Province, the Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government (HHB), the Health Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government and the People's Government of Foshan Municipality. Professor Lo will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony tomorrow morning (September 14) and attend the seminar on the co-operation mechanism of the construction of the CM highlands in the GBA in the afternoon.
 
     Members of the delegation include the Director of Health, Dr Ronald Lam; the Chief Executive of the Hospital Authority (HA), Dr Tony Ko; the Acting Project Director of the Chinese Medicine Hospital Project Office of the HHB, Ms Virginia Leung; the Acting Commissioner for Chinese Medicine Development of the HHB, Mr Dominic Ho; the Assistant Director of Health (Chinese Medicine), Dr Edmund Fong; and the Chief Manager (Chinese Medicine) of the HA, Ms Rowena Wong.
　　
     Professor Lo will return to Hong Kong tomorrow night. During his absence, the Under Secretary for Health, Dr Libby Lee, will be the Acting Secretary for Health.