Premier Wen hails victory in fight against SARS

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Premier Wen hails victory in fight against SARS

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Friday hailed the country's "great victory" in the fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) last year, when he delivered the Report on the Work of the Government at the opening of the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress.

He said China suffered from a disastrous SARS outbreak last spring. The Party Central Committee and the State Council gave top priority to protecting people's health and lives and promptly investigated SARS and took steps to prevent and treat it.

"We enforced the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Treatment of Communicable Diseases, formulated the Regulations on Public Health Emergency Response, and classified SARS as a communicable disease," Wen said.

"We reported the facts of the SARS situation exactly as they were and mobilized the general public throughout the country to control the outbreak."

The State Council and local governments established anti-SARS headquarters to coordinate human, material and financial resources and to make full use of primary-level organizations in both urban and rural areas, so as to ensure that prevention and treatment work was done quickly and orderly.

The government took such measures as providing free treatment for SARS patients among rural workers in urban areas to prevent the spread of SARS to rural areas, he noted.

"During the difficult days of our anti-SARS campaign, leading cadres at all levels took to the frontlines, the people throughout the country united as one, all sectors of society pulled together, large numbers of medical workers faced danger fearlessly, and the Chinese nation withstood a severe test," the premier said.

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