Chinese company to set up clinic

Daily Graphic (spread), Tues. April 06/10

Story Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho

Tasly, a Chinese pharmaceutical company, is to open a specialised Traditional Chinese Medicine Service Centre (TCM) in Accra in May, 2010, to concentrate mainly on treating chronic pains.
The centre will also specialise in treating hypertension, diabetes, stroke, hepatitis and malaria, using acupuncture, cupping (a traditional Chinese therapy) and medical massage.
The Managing Director of Tasly Ghana Limited, Mr Tom Xu, in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra, said the clinic which would be managed by a doctor from China would be the third in Africa after South Africa and Nigeria.
Tasly has 24 pharmaceutical outlets across the world with 12 in Africa, including Ghana.
He said the clinic which would be purely a herbal treatment centre would combine Chinese therapy and not use any chemical in its treatment in order to avoid any side effects.
“Tasly, the third largest pharmaceutical company in China, has been in Ghana for five years and has been helping more than one million people but we want to serve more people”, he added.
So far, he said, Tasly which was an international pharmaceutical and health industry had 60,000 distributors in the country, with 200 speciality shops located in Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi.
He said the company which had a $22 billion stock value with a net capital of $2 billion was hoping to open more outlets across the country.
Mr Xu praised the Ghanaian economy, saying “Ghana is a good place to do business”.
The MD who was accompanied by the Administrative Manager of Tasly Ghana, Mr Shawn Lin, also said the company since it came to Ghana occasionally undertook free health screening for hypertension, diabetes and other general illnesses.
He said the company also worked with Family International, a non-governmental organisation, in its communal service.
Mr Xu said Tasly, which was a network of group of companies, also rewarded its hardworking distributors out of which 40 of them had received salon cars and three others had received 4x4 vehicles with 30 others being sponsored in international travels.