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Official on Measures for SARS Control in China

China has put it as a top priority to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Beijing and other provinces where the disease has been found, a senior health official said Sunday.


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China has put it as a top priority to curb the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Beijing and other provinces where the disease has been found, a senior health official said Sunday.

Gao Qiang, executive vice minister of health, said at a press conference that measures must be taken to effectively protect medical workers from being infected, SARS patients, suspected SARSpatients and the people who have had close contact with them be isolated, and scrutiny tightened at public transportation facilities.

To give more effective directions for SARS prevention and control in localities, the central government has sent supervisiongroups to Guangdong, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan and Ningxia where only one SARS case was reported, Gao said.

In particular, efforts have been redoubled to monitor and protect the development of the disease in places where crowds of people stay together, including schools, government institutions and barracks. Measures have also been taken to protect foreigners and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in the mainland.

According to Gao, the government will mobilize the elite from medical and research circles to jointly develop treatment methods and reduce deaths caused by the disease.

The government will also provide medical aid and subsidies to the poor people who contracted SARS, while offering the health-care subsidies to medical workers treating the disease.

The cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) will be further strengthened, Gao said, adding that officials from the Chinese Ministry of Health and WHO experts were working together currently on measures for SARS prevention and control.


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