TCM demand grows in treatment in Ghana

ACCRA－Despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increasing demand for traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of common ailments in Ghana.

At the China Natural Herbal Hospital, a private herbal facility at Pokuase, a suburb of Accra, the Ghanaian capital, Leticia Mensah, a 30-year-old patient, says she has been living with menstrual cramps and chest pains since she first had her menstruation almost two decades ago.

"I have been on so many drugs before," says Leticia during a visit to the private facility that treats ailments of patients with a combination of local and Chinese herbal formulas.