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Beijing
warns of harsh punishments for hospitals rejecting AIDS patients
[Xinhua 9 March 2006]
http://www.china-aids.org/english/News/News470.htm
BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese capital
Beijing pledges to harshly punish medical institutions that reject
patients contracted with AIDS virus, said the Municipal Health Bureau.
HIV carriers and
AIDS patients who are denied medical treatment can lodge complaints by
dialing five hotlines. some of which opened Wednesday at the local
bureau and its county-level health inspection divisions and diseases
control centers, respectively.
Patients can dial
two hotlines, one in the day and the other at night, to reach the health
inspections divisions 24 hours a day.
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Experts believe the
efforts will help ensure AIDS patients' access to medical services, a
huge improvement from the once frequent rejection of them by hospitals.
The HIV/AIDS
epidemic in Beijing is on rise, with the number of HIV carriers and AIDS
patients standing at 2,829 by the end of last year, said the health
bureau's director Jin Dapeng last month.
China issued earlier
last month its first official guidelines on how to prevent and control
the spread of HIV, promising to protect HIV carriers and AIDS patients
from discrimination and to ensure their marriage, employment, medical
care and education rights. Enditem
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