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SARS Patients Transferred for Better treatment: Official

The transfer of SARS patients to designated hospitals is aimed to give them still better treatment instead of covering up the SARS situation, said a Beijing municipal official on Friday.

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The transfer of SARS patients to designated hospitals is aimed to give them still better treatment instead of covering up the SARS situation, said a Beijing municipal official on Friday.

At a press briefing on the SARS situation in Beijing, Cai Fuchao, director of the Publicity Department of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), cited the hearsay that patients were transferred to cover up the true situation of SARS as "very irresponsible".

On Wednesday night, 130 SARS patients were moved from the People's Hospital, the Beijing Medical University and No. 3 Hospital affiliated with the medical university, to the hospitals designated for treatment, where special medical experts teams have been set up.

Meanwhile, according to Guo Jiyong, deputy director of the its health bureau, Beijing municipality has 50 ambulances at hand for the transfer of SARS patients.

No area with mass infection in Beijing

There has been no living area with mass infections of SARS in Beijing, said the senior municipal publicity official.

No SARS cases have been spotted in local kindergartens, Cai said, and there have been "very, very few" children infected in Beijing.

The first child "patient" who was once referred to as the first SARS case in a certain local primary schools has been ruled out after a period of close observation and meticulous diagnosis, he added.

In term of age groups, most SARS patients in the city of Beijing are middle-aged people, and the elderly only cover a tiny part of the whole number of SARS patients, Cai said.

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