Traditional Chinese Medicine in Barcelona

The Government signed an agreement with the Beijing government to boost its creation in Catalonia

Traditional Chinese Medicine in Barcelona

The Beijing government has chosen Catalonia to create the first center of traditional Chinese medicine outside Asia. The Generalitat signed on January 27 an agreement with a consortium of Chinese companies and research centers and hospitals, the Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, led by the Beijing government to boost the creation of this center, which would be Europe’s largest of its kind.

Company sources and Knowledge Department report that the downtown location is still unknown. “Barcelona is one of the options, but there are other possible locations. What is certain is that it will be in Catalonia, “say sources of the department.

For its part, the European Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who attended the launch of the project last January 28 in the auditorium of Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona (UB), said that the center “will or yes in Barcelona city but do not know exactly where, “and involve an investment of” 80 million euros “. Since the Government does not want to talk about figures and say that the project is still “under negotiation”.

The project includes the launch of an official master for physicians interested in traditional Chinese medicine, to be conducted in collaboration between UB and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. This master will the arrival of new students Catalunya internationally, according to the Department of Enterprise and Knowledge directed Jordi Baiget.

The initiative also entail the creation of new lines of research related to this field of medicine, and a cultural center that is responsible for the spread of this discipline as well as the opening of an institute for care and support and recognition use of herbs using traditional Chinese medicine.

The aim is to apply “Western scientific knowledge to validate the principles and applications of traditional Chinese medicine,” according to the Government. “It is very positive news. It’s not only a breakthrough in traditional medicine but also serve to update the regulation is outdated in Spain in this area. Also help to raise awareness of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to collaborate with the benefit of patients, “they say from the European Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The project has received support and advice in the area of ​​attracting foreign investments ACCIÓ and the Ministry of Universities and Research. A delegation from the Chinese consortium with which the agreement has been signed will be installed temporarily at the headquarters of ACCIÓ in Barcelona to find the most suitable location for the new center.

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Barcelona Medical Destination

Catalonia receives each year more than 20,000 health tourists

Hospital Sant Pau Barcelona

There are other tourists, foreigners who come to Catalonia to undergo medical treatment, an entire market segment yet to be developed in these latitudes. Apparently the room for growth is vast. The quality of life offered by Barcelona multiplies the attractiveness of its private hospitals.

Therefore now the Catalan Tourist Board and Tourism of the Generalitat of Barcelona promote the brand Barcelona Medical Destination. Its aim is to promote Barcelona and Catalonia as other medical tourism destinations with high added value internationally.

And it is that Catalonia receives annually visited by health reasons of some 20,000 people, 20,000 people flocking l country through the private system. Usually these people spend on average three to four times more than a tourist attracted mainly by the sun and the beach.

We talked of other tourists, affluent visitors do not come only to undergo surgery, but also citizens who are interested in enjoying the treatments offered, for example, thirty spas with mineral waters declared public utility.

The Minister of Health, Boi Ruiz, explained in the presentation of this initiative that the affiliated institutions are private, and that this development will not cause any negative impact on the public system. On the contrary, he said, since they will be the people living here who ultimately will be the major beneficiaries of the improvements.

The counselor d’Empresa, Felip Puig, said that the arrival of citizens from mainly the Persian Gulf, the US and North Africa will involve an injection amount for research, innovation, attract talent and, ultimately, to the wealth generation.

Meanwhile, Joan Gaspart, President of Turisme de Barcelona, explained that this new route reinforces the role of tourism in the Catalan economy. “Just finished an exceptional year, and yet the tourist train does not stop.”

 

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Nikken Sekkei opens office in Barcelona

The company, which is one of the largest groups of engineering and architecture in the world, based on its development in Europe in Barcelona

Tadao Kamei, president of Nikken Sekkei

Nikken Sekkei, one of the largest architectural and engineering in the world, has just opened an office in Barcelona that will be the basis for future development across Europe. For a couple of weeks has begun to work in an office of Bonanova, a team of a dozen architects and technicians. A few days ago, the president and CEO of Nikken Sekkei, Tadao Kamei, was in Barcelona to present its strategy, which is to “establish partnerships with local studies architecture”, and here and in other countries European Union in carrying out projects.

Kamei said they have chosen Barcelona as a platform for European expansion “by the influence of the work of Antoni Gaudí, the quality of the schools of architecture in the city, and excellent communications possibilities offered by the city.” The company was clothed in his arrival in Barcelona by the Business Circle Japan Spain, Jorge Lasheras presiding.

Nikken Sekkei is the largest group of Japanese architecture and one of the top five in the world. It employs 2,500 people (more than a thousand architects), headquartered in Tokyo and four main offices and nine branches in Japan, and subsidiaries in Singapore; Seoul; Shanghai, Dalian and Beijing (China); Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Ryadh (Saudi Arabia) and Dubai. The company, which has its origins in 1900, has performed work in over forty countries, and its projects are some of the unique buildings that define the skylines of Japanese and Asian cities as well as airports, cultural facilities, hospitals planning projects.

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