A respiratory diseases inspection system was officially launched
in Shenzhen on Thursday, with 31 city hospitals appointed as
inspection stations.
The inspection system is designed to combat SARS and human bird
flu among other respiratory diseases.
Any patients with symptoms of fever not diagnosed as
non-respiratory diseases must be transferred to a special fever
clinic.
All hospitals operating as inspection stations are required to
report to the disease control and prevention centers in their
districts within two hours of any suspicious respiratory symptoms
detected.
(Shenzhen Daily November 5, 2004)