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Macao to establish mandatory reporting mechanism for infectious diseases
July 1, 2008
Macau - June 30 (Xinhua Zhang Wei) Macao SAR Government Gazette published on the 30th of the new "mandatory reporting mechanism for infectious diseases" and "vaccination system." The Government said that this is in line with the existing law on preventing and controlling infectious diseases and to further improve the prevention of outbreaks of communicable diseases related measures.
According to the Health Bureau, in accordance with the new "infectious diseases mandatory reporting mechanism", public or private sector, as well as to make it
A post-mortem room of the technical staff, once found in the discharge of their duties and regulations of the 42 kinds of listed / diseases, the statutory obligation to the Health Board to declare the period.
"Mechanism" also provides a number of important diseases such as cholera, plague, Ebola virus disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome, rabies, and so on, must not only be in doubt when to declare and to know within one hour after the declaration. Some very common diseases, just confirmed by laboratory tests after the declaration.
New regulations also declare confidentiality of information provided to declare all contact information and participation in the reporting process to ensure declare the security and confidentiality of documents, unless the law provides otherwise, shall not disclose to any person aware of the content.
Those who violate the new regulations on medical institutions and medical personnel, "mechanism" also provides for the corresponding administrative punishments, no time to declare a maximum fine of 4,000 patacas.
In addition, to ensure that the vaccination work in the smooth conduct of the SAR Government, through the "vaccination system" to regulate the local epidemic disease prevention and vaccination system manual vaccinated individuals, Macao to enhance the overall population immunity levels and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases Morbidity, mortality and morbidity.
July 1, 2008
Macau - June 30 (Xinhua Zhang Wei) Macao SAR Government Gazette published on the 30th of the new "mandatory reporting mechanism for infectious diseases" and "vaccination system." The Government said that this is in line with the existing law on preventing and controlling infectious diseases and to further improve the prevention of outbreaks of communicable diseases related measures.
According to the Health Bureau, in accordance with the new "infectious diseases mandatory reporting mechanism", public or private sector, as well as to make it
A post-mortem room of the technical staff, once found in the discharge of their duties and regulations of the 42 kinds of listed / diseases, the statutory obligation to the Health Board to declare the period.
"Mechanism" also provides a number of important diseases such as cholera, plague, Ebola virus disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome, rabies, and so on, must not only be in doubt when to declare and to know within one hour after the declaration. Some very common diseases, just confirmed by laboratory tests after the declaration.
New regulations also declare confidentiality of information provided to declare all contact information and participation in the reporting process to ensure declare the security and confidentiality of documents, unless the law provides otherwise, shall not disclose to any person aware of the content.
Those who violate the new regulations on medical institutions and medical personnel, "mechanism" also provides for the corresponding administrative punishments, no time to declare a maximum fine of 4,000 patacas.
In addition, to ensure that the vaccination work in the smooth conduct of the SAR Government, through the "vaccination system" to regulate the local epidemic disease prevention and vaccination system manual vaccinated individuals, Macao to enhance the overall population immunity levels and reduce vaccine-preventable diseases Morbidity, mortality and morbidity.
