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    [Call number] XG8100000-2009-001
    [Message name] People's Republic of Infectious Diseases Control Act (new)
    [Document Number]
    [Open class] take the initiative to open
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    [Posted body] Health Bureau (Population and Family Planning Commission)
    [Published] 2009-12-31
    [Source] Health Bureau (Population and Family Planning Commission)
    [Description] take the initiative to open
    [Text]

    Chapter I General Provisions

    First in order to prevent, control and elimination of the incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases to protect human health and public health, the development of this law.

    The second state to implement prevention and treatment of infectious diseases prevention-oriented approach, combining prevention with control, classification management, rely on science, relying on the masses.

    Article III of this Law of infectious diseases is divided into A, B and C classes.

    A disease means: plague, cholera.

    Category B infectious diseases, refer to: SARS, AIDS, viral hepatitis, polio, human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza, measles, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, rabies, Japanese encephalitis, Tang leather heat, anthrax, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid and paratyphoid, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, whooping cough, diphtheria, neonatal tetanus, scarlet fever, brucellosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, hook leptospirosis, schistosomiasis and malaria.

    Class C infectious diseases means: influenza, mumps, rubella, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, leprosy, epidemic and endemic typhus, leishmaniasis, echinococcosis, filariasis, in addition to cholera, bacterial and amoebic dysentery, typhoid and paratyphoid infections other than diarrhea.

    The above provisions other than infectious diseases, according to its outbreak, the prevalence and severity, the need to include B and C class infectious diseases by the health administrative departments of the State Council decided and made public.

    Article IV of the Category B infectious diseases SARS, anthrax, pulmonary anthrax, and the people are infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza, to take the CPI in this Act referred to infectious disease prevention, control measures. Other group B infectious diseases and sudden unexplained infectious diseases need to be taken in this Act referred to Group A of infectious diseases prevention, control measures by the State Council's health administration departments and Times to be announced after approval by the State Council to implement.

    Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities within the administrative region of this common multiple of the other endemic infectious diseases, can be decided in accordance with B or Class C infectious diseases, management and publish the findings be reported to the State Council, health administrative departments for the record.

    Article V of infectious diseases prevention and control of the leadership of governments at all levels.

    People's governments above the county level development planning and organizing the implementation of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, establish and improve prevention and treatment of disease prevention and control of infectious diseases, medical treatment and supervision management system.

    Article VI of the State Council in charge of the national health administrative departments and its supervision and management of infectious disease prevention. Local people's governments above the county level health administrative departments in charge of the administrative regions of the infectious disease prevention and the supervision and management.

    Above the county level people's governments in other sectors in their respective areas of responsibility for prevention and control of infectious diseases.

    Infectious disease prevention and control of the armed forces in accordance with the relevant provisions of this Law and the State by the People's Liberation Army health authorities to implement supervision and management.

    Article VII of disease prevention and control institutions at all levels of commitment to infectious diseases, monitoring, prediction, epidemiological investigation, outbreak reports, and other preventive and control work.

    Medical institutions to take on medical care-related infectious diseases prevention and control work and responsibilities of the prevention of infectious diseases within the region. Urban communities and rural primary health care institutions in the disease prevention and control institutions under the guidance of commitment to urban communities, rural grass-roots level appropriate prevention and control of infectious diseases.

    Article VIII of the national development of modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine and other traditional medicine, to support and encourage scientific research on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, improve disease prevention and control of science and technology.

    States to support and encourage international cooperation in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

    Article IX The state supports and encourages units and individuals involved in infectious disease prevention and control work. Governments at all levels should improve the system, the convenience of units and individuals involved in publicity and education on prevention of infectious diseases, the epidemic reporting, voluntary services and donations.

    Neighborhood and village committee should organize the residents, the villagers involved in community, rural areas of infectious diseases prevention and control activities.

    The state shall undertake to prevent infectious diseases, health education. The news media should be free to carry out prevention and control of infectious diseases and public health education and public advocacy.

    All schools should be students of knowledge and infectious disease prevention knowledge and health education.

    Medical institutions should be strengthened to prevent medical education and scientific research, the students in the school and other infectious diseases related to staff education and training of preventive medicine for infectious disease prevention and control to provide technical support.

    Disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions should periodically infectious disease prevention and treatment of its staff with the knowledge, skills training.

    Article XI in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases has made remarkable achievements and contributions in the units and individuals to give recognition and reward.

    Involved in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases due to illness, disability, death of personnel, in accordance with relevant provisions of the granting subsidies, pension.

    Article XII of The People's Republic of China in the field of all the units and individuals must accept the disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, a survey on infectious diseases, testing, collecting samples, isolation and treatment to prevent, control measures, provide false information. Disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions not to disclose information about personal privacy and information.

    Health administrative departments and other departments, disease prevention and control institutions and medical institutions due to the implementation of administrative law or the prevention, control measures, violating the legitimate rights and interests of units and individuals, the relevant units and individuals may apply for administrative reconsideration according to law, or litigation.

    Chapter II Prevention of Infectious Diseases

    Article XIII mass organizations at all levels of government health activities, health education for prevention of infectious diseases and advocate a civilized and healthy lifestyle, to raise public awareness of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and response capacity, strengthening environmental sanitation construction, to eliminate rodent infestation, and mosquitoes, flies and other vectors of biological hazards.

    Governments at all levels of agriculture, water conservancy, forestry administration departments according to the division of responsibilities is responsible for directing and organizing the elimination of farmland, lake, rivers, pastures, forest rodent with Schistosoma hazards, as well as other vector transmission of infectious diseases of animals and biological hazards.

    Railway, transport, civil aviation administrative departments responsible for organizing the transport and related establishments to eliminate rodents and mosquitoes, flies and other vectors of biological hazards.

    Article XIV of the local people's governments at various levels should be planned construction and transformation of public health facilities, improving drinking water, sanitation, sewage, dirt, dung for harmless disposal.

    15th The state plans to implement vaccination system. Health administrative departments of the State Council and provincial, autonomous regions and municipalities health administrative departments, according to infectious disease prevention and control needs, the development of infectious diseases and to organize the implementation of vaccination programs. For the prevention of vaccines must comply with national quality standards.

    Vaccination of children in the national certification system. Projects of national immunization programs vaccination free of charge. Medical institutions, disease prevention and control institutions and the children's guardian should complement each other, to ensure that children receive timely immunizations. The specific measures formulated by the State Council.

    16th of the state and society should be concerned to help patients with communicable diseases, pathogen carriers and suspected patients with communicable diseases so that timely treatment. No unit or individual may discriminate against patients with infectious diseases, pathogen carriers and suspected patients with communicable diseases.

    Patients with communicable diseases, pathogen carriers and suspected patients with communicable diseases, in the cure of infectious diseases before or the exclusion of a suspect before the shall not engage in legal, administrative regulations, and health administration department under the State Council, prohibited from engaging in the ease of making the spread of infectious diseases work.

    The State shall establish disease surveillance system.

    Health administrative departments of the State Council to develop national communicable disease surveillance planning and programs. Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities health administrative department in accordance with national communicable disease surveillance and program planning to develop the administrative regions of the infectious disease surveillance plan and work programs.

    Disease prevention and control institutions at all levels, the incidence of infectious diseases, prevalence and impact of its incidence and prevalence of factors, monitoring; right place abroad, the domestic epidemic has not yet occurred or the newly occurred infectious diseases, be monitored.

    18th of disease prevention and control institutions at all levels of infectious disease prevention and control in the performance of the following duties:

    (A) implementation of disease prevention and control planning, plans and programs;

    (B) the collection, analysis and reporting of infectious disease surveillance information to predict the occurrence of infectious diseases, prevalence trends;

    (C) The initiation of infectious disease outbreaks and public health emergencies of the epidemiological investigation, on-site processing and its effects assessment;

    (D) to carry out laboratory testing of infectious diseases, diagnosis, etiology identification;

    (E) implementation of immunization programs, the use of biological products for preventive management;

    (Vi) carrying out health education, counseling, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases spread knowledge;

    (G) guidance, training, disease prevention and control institutions and their subordinate staff to carry out surveillance of communicable diseases;

    (Viii) to carry out infectious disease prevention and health evaluation of applied research, providing technical advice.

    The national, provincial disease prevention and control institutions responsible for infectious diseases, prevalence and distribution monitoring, to predict the trend of major infectious diseases, prevention and control measures put forward to participate in and guide the conduct of the investigation and handling of the epidemic outbreak and conduct infectious etiology identification, establishment of inspection quality control system and carry out applied research and health evaluation.

    Divided into districts, municipal and county-level disease prevention and control of infectious diseases prevention and control agency responsible for planning, program implementation, organizing the implementation of immunization, disinfection, control of vector biological hazards, spread of infectious diseases prevention and control knowledge, is responsible for epidemic and public health emergencies in the region event monitoring, reporting, conduct epidemiological investigations, and common diseases of the original microbiological tests.

    19th state shall establish an early warning system for infectious diseases.

    Health administrative departments of the State Council and provincial, autonomous regions and municipalities according to infectious disease occurrence trend forecasts, timely issue of early warning of infectious diseases, according to the situation to the public.

    Diershitiao Local people's governments above the county level should be developed to infectious disease prevention, control plans, next higher level people's government for the record.

    Infectious disease prevention and control plan should include the following main elements:

    (A) infectious disease prevention and control headquarters of the composition and responsibilities of relevant departments;

    (B) infectious disease surveillance, information collection, analysis, reporting, notification system;

    (C) disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, in the event of infectious disease outbreaks tasks and responsibilities;

    (D) infectious disease outbreaks and the prevalence of the classification and the corresponding emergency work program;

    (E) infectious disease prevention, epidemic point affected areas on-site control, emergency facilities, equipment, treatment of medicines and medical equipment as well as other materials and technology reserves to call.

    Local governments and disease prevention and control institutions receiving the health administrative departments of the State Council or provincial, autonomous regions and municipalities to issue an early warning of infectious diseases, shall in accordance with infectious disease prevention and control plan, to take appropriate preventive and control measures.

    21st of medical institutions to strictly implement the health administrative department under the State Council, the management system and operation rules to prevent infectious diseases, nosocomial infection and hospital infection.

    Medical institutions should identify specific departments or staff, with the infectious diseases to report that the units of infectious disease prevention, control and responsibility for prevention of infectious diseases within the region; the burden of healthcare activities with nosocomial infection risk factors related to monitoring, security protection, disinfection, quarantine and medical waste disposal.

    Disease prevention and control agencies should appoint a special officer responsible for infectious disease prevention, health institutions, guidance, assessment, carry out epidemiological investigations.

    22nd of disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, laboratories and experimental units engaged in pathogenic micro-organisms, shall meet the State requirements and technical standards, establish a strict system of supervision and management of infectious disease pathogens, samples strictly in accordance with the measures provided for supervision and management, prevent infectious diseases, laboratory pathogens spread of infections and pathogenic microorganisms.

    23rd of blood collection and supply agencies, units of biological products must strictly implement the relevant provisions of the State to ensure that blood, blood products quality. Against illegal collection of blood or organizing others to sell blood.

    Disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, the use of blood and blood products must comply with relevant state regulations, and prevent blood, caused by the use of blood products, blood-borne diseases.

    24th of governments at all levels should strengthen AIDS prevention and control work, to take preventive and control measures to prevent the spread of AIDS. The specific measures formulated by the State Council.

    25th People's governments above the county level in agriculture, forestry administration and other relevant departments, according to their respective responsibilities for animal and zoonotic infectious disease-related infectious diseases prevention and control management.

    And zoonotic infectious disease of wild animals, domestic animals and poultry, after passing through quarantine before sale, and transportation.

    26th of countries have established strains of infectious diseases, drugs, species pool.

    Infectious disease bacteria and viruses and infectious disease testing sample collection, preservation, carrying, transport and use of category management, and establish and improve the strict management system.

    A right may lead to the spread of infectious diseases, as well as the health administrative department under the State Council of the bacteria and viruses and infectious diseases, testing samples, and where the collection, preservation, carrying, transport and use, subject to health administrative departments at the provincial level people's governments at or above approval. The specific measures formulated by the State Council.

    27th Article of the infectious pathogens have been contaminated sewage, dirt, places and objects, the relevant units and individuals in disease prevention and control institutions must be under the direction of or in accordance with his proposed health requirements, strict disinfection treatment; refused to disinfection treatment by the local health administrative departments or disease prevention and control agencies dealing with forced sterilization.

    28th of the country's natural foci confirmed plans to build water conservancy, transportation, tourism, energy and other large-scale construction projects, it should be in advance by the provincial disease prevention and control over the construction environment Health Survey. Construction units should be based on disease prevention and control organizations, to take the necessary infectious disease prevention, control measures. The construction period, the construction unit should set up specifically responsible for sanitation and epidemic prevention work on the site. After completion of the project, disease prevention and control of infectious diseases that may occur should be monitored.

    29th of disinfection products for infectious disease prevention and treatment, drinking water supply units in the supply of drinking water and drinking water, health and safety related products, should be consistent with national health standards and hygienic practices.

    Drinking water supply units engaged in production or supply activities, shall be in accordance with law to obtain health permits.

    Production of sterile products for infectious disease prevention and treatment units and production of sterile products for infectious disease prevention and treatment, it should be by the people's governments at or above the provincial level health administrative department for approval. The specific measures formulated by the State Council.

    Chapter III of the epidemic reporting, notification and publication of

    30th of disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions and blood collection and supply agencies and their execution of their duties under this Law have found that outbreaks of infectious diseases, or found any other infectious disease outbreaks, pop and sudden unexplained infectious disease, it should follow the epidemic reporting territorial management principles, in accordance with the provisions of the State Council, or health administration department under the State Council, the content, procedures, methods and time frames for reporting.

    The military medical institutions provide medical services to the public and found that the provisions of the preceding paragraph, an infectious disease outbreak, health administrative departments shall be in accordance with the provisions of the State Council report.

    第 三十一条 Any unit or individual patients with infectious diseases or suspected communicable diseases found in patients, shall promptly report to the vicinity of disease prevention and control institutions or medical bodies.

    32nd of ports, airports, railways disease prevention and control institutions, as well as frontier health and quarantine authorities found that the CPI patients with communicable diseases, pathogen carriers, suspected patients with communicable diseases, it should be in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State border ports immediately to the location of disease prevention and control institutions the local people's governments at or above the county level health administrative departments report and keep each other informed.

    33rd of disease prevention and control agencies should take the initiative to the collection, analysis, investigation, verification of information on infectious diseases. Received the A, B infectious diseases outbreaks of infectious diseases reports or find, popular, they shall immediately report to the local health administrative departments, by the local health administrative departments to immediately report to the local people's governments at the same time report to the higher health administrative departments and the health administrative departments of the State Council .

    Disease prevention and control institutions shall be established or designated by a special department, and personnel information management is responsible for infectious diseases, and timely reports on the outbreak verification and analysis.

    34th of local people's governments above the county level health administrative departments shall promptly report to the administrative area of disease prevention and control institutions and medical institutions notification of infectious diseases, as well as monitoring, early warning information. Received notification of the disease prevention and control institutions and medical institutions shall promptly inform the relevant personnel unit.

    35th health administrative department under the State Council shall promptly report to the State Council, other departments and the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities informed health administrative departments nationwide outbreaks of infectious diseases, as well as monitoring, early warning information.

    The adjacent and related health administrative departments of local people's governments shall promptly inform each other of the administrative regions of infectious diseases, as well as monitoring, early warning information.

    People's governments above the county level found in infectious disease outbreaks, shall promptly report to the same level people's government health administrative departments informed.

    People's Liberation Army health authorities found that infectious disease outbreaks, health administrative departments shall be notified to the State Council.

    36th of animal epidemic prevention agencies and disease prevention and control institutions shall promptly inform each other among animals and human zoonotic infectious diseases occurred and related information.

    37th article in accordance with the provisions of this Law has a duty to report infectious diseases of the people's government, disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, blood collection and supply agencies and their staff shall not conceal, misrepresent, and delaying the report infectious disease outbreaks.

    38th The state announced the establishment of information system for infectious disease outbreaks.

    State Department of Health administrative departments regularly publish information on the national infectious disease outbreaks. Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of the health administrative departments regularly publish information on outbreaks of infectious diseases administrative areas.

    Infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, health administrative departments of the State Council is responsible for outbreaks of infectious diseases to the public information and may authorize the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to the public health administrative departments of the administrative regions of the infectious diseases information.

    Release infectious diseases information should be timely and accurate.

    Chapter IV epidemic under control

    39th of medical institutions have found the CPI infectious diseases, shall promptly take the following measures:

    (A) the patient, pathogen carriers, to be treated in isolation, quarantine period of medical examination results to be confirmed;

    (B) the right suspected patients, confirmed the former designated places in a separate isolation and treatment;

    (C) of the medical institutions of the patients, pathogen carriers, the close contacts of suspected patients in designated places under medical observation and take other necessary precautions.

    Treated in isolation or quarantine refuses elapsed without authorization from the isolation and treatment, and can assist the medical institutions by the public security organs to take a mandatory isolation and treatment measures.

    Medical institutions have found the B or C patients with communicable diseases should be based on conditions to take the necessary measures for treatment and control of spread.

    Medical institutions for infectious pathogens in this unit have been contaminated sites, articles and medical waste must be in accordance with laws and regulations to implement disinfection, decontamination and disposal.

    40th of disease prevention and control institutions found that outbreaks of infectious diseases, or infectious diseases received the report, shall promptly take the following measures:

    (A) to conduct epidemiological investigations of infectious diseases, according to the investigation propose a delimitation epidemic point, epidemic's recommendations on the contaminated sites health treatment, in close contact with persons under medical observation in designated places, and to take other the necessary preventive measures, and health administrative department of epidemic control programs;

    (B) infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, the epidemic point, epidemic for health treatment, to the health administration department of epidemic control programs, and in accordance with the requirements of health administrative departments to take measures;

    (C) to guide the implementation of lower-level disease prevention and control of infectious diseases prevention, control measures, organization, guide the treatment of infectious diseases units.

    第 四十一条 cases of infectious diseases that have taken place A place or a specific area within the premises of the staff, the location of local people's governments above the county level can be implemented quarantine measures, while up a government report; received reports of the higher people's government shall be made on whether to approve an immediate decision. Higher people's government made the decision not to approve the implementation of quarantine measures, governments should immediately lift the quarantine measures.

    During the isolation period, the implementation of quarantine measures, governments should provide social security isolation; be isolated personnel work unit, where the unit may stop payment of their remuneration for work during the isolation period.

    The lifting of isolation measures, the original decision and announced that the competent authorities.

    42nd of infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, local people's governments above the county level shall be immediately organized, according to the prevention and control plan to prevent and treat, cut off the route of transmission of infectious diseases, when necessary, reported to the government on a decision, you can to take the following emergency measures and make an announcement:

    (A) to limit or stop fairs, theater performances, or other gathering of people;

    (B) the suspension of work, suspension of business, closed;

    (C) Closure of infectious pathogens, or seal has been contaminated public drinking water sources, food and related items;

    (D) Infected control, or kill wild animals, livestock and poultry;

    (V) Closure of the premises may result in spread of infectious diseases.

    Higher people's government received a lower-level People's Government on the adoption of urgent measures listed in the report of the preceding paragraph, it should immediately make a decision.

    The lifting of emergency measures, the original decision and announced that the competent authorities.

    43rd of A, B infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, reported to the local people's governments above the county level people's government at a decision, you can declare some or all of the administrative region for the epidemic; the State Council may decide and announce provinces , autonomous regions and municipalities of the epidemic. Local people's governments above the county level can be taken in the infected area provided for in Article 42nd of this Act an emergency measure and can be right out of infected areas of personnel, materials and transport implementation of health and quarantine.

    Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities may decide on the administrative regions A blockade epidemic diseases; However, the blockade of large, medium, or blockade the city's epidemic provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities affected areas, as well as the blockade affected area leading to disruption Route traffic or block borders by the State Council has decided.

    The lifting of the blockade affected areas, the original decision and announced that the competent authorities.

    A 44th place of infectious diseases, in order to prevent the disease through the means of transport and by transport personnel, supplies communication, health and quarantine can be implemented traffic. The specific measures formulated by the State Council.

    45th of infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, according to the need for control of infectious diseases, the State Council have the right to a national or inter-provincial, autonomous regions and municipalities within the local people's governments above the county level have the right to mobilize in the administrative area of emergency personnel or call the reserve materials, temporary requisition of housing, transport and related facilities and equipment.

    Emergency mobilization of personnel, it shall be given reasonable compensation in accordance with regulations. Temporary expropriation of housing, transport and related facilities, equipment, and shall be compensated according to law; be able to return, and shall be promptly returned.

    A 46th of suffering from infectious diseases, anthrax death, the body should be an immediate health treatment, the nearest cremation. Suffering from other infectious diseases, death, if necessary, should be treated with health bodies cremated or buried in accordance with regulations.

    In order to find the cause of infectious diseases, medical institutions, when necessary, in accordance with the provisions of health administrative departments of the State Council on the bodies of patients with infectious diseases or suspected communicable diseases of patients to conduct an autopsy examination, and should inform the family of the deceased.

    47th of epidemic infectious disease pathogens were contaminated or infectious pathogens may be contaminated items that can be used after sterilization, it should be in the local disease prevention and control institutions under the guidance of disinfection treatment, before the use, sale and transport.

    48th of occurrence of infectious disease outbreaks, disease prevention and control institutions and the people's governments above the provincial level health administrative departments assigned to other professional and technical organizations related to infectious diseases, infectious diseases, epidemic site can enter, epidemic investigation, collecting samples, technical analysis and testing.

    49th of infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, drugs and medical equipment manufacturing, supply units shall in-time production and supply of drugs prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and medical equipment. Railway, transport, civil aviation and transportation business units must give priority to dealing with infectious diseases as well as against infectious diseases, drugs and medical equipment. People's governments above the county level shall do a good job of organization and coordination.

    Chapter V of medical treatment

    50th people's governments above the county level should strengthen and improve the medical treatment of infectious diseases service network building, specify the conditions and treatment of infectious diseases have the ability to treat infectious diseases, medical institutions undertake the task, or need to set up according to infectious disease hospital for treatment of infectious diseases.

    第 五十一条 medical institutions of the basic standards, architectural design and service process, shall conform to the requirements of hospital infection prevention of infectious diseases.

    Medical institutions should be in accordance with regulations on the use of medical devices for disinfection; first use in accordance with the provisions of the medical equipment, should be destroyed after use.

    Medical institutions, health administrative departments shall be in accordance with the provisions of the State Council, diagnostic criteria and treatment of infectious diseases required to take appropriate measures to enhance the capacity of medical treatment of infectious diseases.

    52nd of medical institutions should patients with infectious diseases or suspected communicable diseases of patients with medical care, on-site rescue and treatment admissions, writing medical records and other relevant information and safekeeping.

    Infectious diseases, medical institutions should implement pre-screening, triage system; pairs of patients with communicable diseases, suspected patients with communicable diseases, should lead to the relative isolation of the first consultation triage point. Medical institutions do not have the appropriate treatment capacity, patients and their medical records should be transferred together with a copy of the corresponding treatment capacity of medical institutions. The specific measures by the State Council's health administration department.

    Chapter VI Supervision and Administration

    53rd People's Government above the county level health administrative departments of infectious diseases prevention and control of supervision and inspection shall perform the following duties:

    (A) to lower government health administrative departments to fulfill the provisions of this Law, an infectious disease prevention and control responsibilities of supervision and inspection;

    (Ii) disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, infectious disease prevention and control work of supervision and inspection;

    (C) of the blood collection and supply agencies to conduct supervision and inspection of blood collection activities;

    (D) used for infectious disease prevention and control of disinfection products and their production units to conduct supervision and inspection, and potable water supply units engaged in production or supply activities and products related to health and safety of drinking water to conduct supervision and inspection;

    (E) strains of communicable diseases, drugs, infectious diseases, detection of species and sample collection, preservation, carrying, transportation, use of supervision and inspection;

    (Vi) the relevant units of public places and health conditions and infectious disease prevention and control measures for supervision and inspection.

    People's governments at or above the provincial level health administrative departments responsible for organizing the handling of major issues of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

    54th people's governments above the county level health administrative departments in carrying out supervision and inspection duties, the right to enter the unit being inspected and infectious disease outbreak on-site investigation and evidence collection, access or copy the relevant information and collection of samples. The units being inspected shall meet, shall not refuse and obstruct.

    55th of local people's governments above the county level health administrative departments in carrying out supervision and inspection duties, they found contaminated by infectious pathogens of public drinking water sources, food and related items, such as Failure to take timely control measures may lead to spread of infectious diseases, prevalence and can be closed to the public drinking water source to take custody of food and related items, or the temporary suspension of sales of control measures, and be tested, or disinfected. After testing, belong to contaminated food, should be destroyed; pairs of uncontaminated food or can be used by the sterilized items, control measures should be lifted.

    56th of health administrative departments carry out their duties according to law, it should be no less than two and produce law-enforcement documents, fill in the health law enforcement instrument.

    Health and law enforcement instrument through after verification, it should be by the health law enforcement officers and the parties signed. Parties refused to sign, the health situation of law enforcement officials should include.

    57th of health administrative departments shall establish a sound internal control systems in accordance with law, its staff and procedures in accordance with the statutory authority to discharge its responsibilities to monitor it.

    Higher-level health administrative department finds that lower-level health administrative departments do not mandate a timely manner or not matters within the scope of duties, it shall be ordered to correct or direct to be addressed.

    58th of health administrative departments and their staff perform their duties, we should consciously accept the supervision of society and its citizens. Units and individuals have the right to the higher people's government and health authorities to report violations of the law. Upon receiving the report of the people's government or its health administrative departments shall promptly investigate and handle.

    Safeguard measures under Chapter VII of

    59th communicable diseases prevention and control of the state will work into the national economic and social development plans, local people's governments above the county level will be incorporated into infectious disease prevention and control of the administrative regions of the national economic and social development plans.

    60th of local people's governments above the county level duties in accordance with this level of government responsible for the administrative area of infectious diseases prevention, control, supervision of the daily expenses.

    Health administrative departments of the State Council in conjunction with relevant departments of the State Council, according to infectious disease trends, to determine the national infectious disease prevention, control, treatment, monitoring, forecasting, early warning, supervision and inspection and other projects. Difficult areas in the central finance for the implementation of major infectious diseases prevention and control project grant basis.

    Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities under the administrative area of infectious diseases prevalent trend in the health administrative departments of the State Council to determine within the framework of the project to determine the infectious disease prevention, control, supervision and so on, and to guarantee the implementation of the project funding.

    第 六十一条 countries to strengthen disease prevention and control system for the building of grass-roots level, support poverty-stricken areas and minority areas of infectious diseases prevention and control work.

    Local governments should protect the urban communities, rural grass-roots funding for prevention of infectious diseases.

    62nd State of the difficulties of people suffering from certain infectious diseases, the implementation of medical assistance, reduction of medical costs. The specific measures by the health administrative department of the State Council in conjunction with the financial department and other departments of the State Council formulated.

    63rd People's governments above the county level responsible for the Reserves against infectious diseases, drugs, medical equipment and other supplies to prepare for calls.

    Article 64th in infectious disease prevention, health care, scientific research, teaching, on-site handling of the epidemic of personnel, as well as in production, the work of contagious disease pathogens and other personnel, the units concerned to follow state regulations, take effective protective measures and health health care measures, and appropriate allowance.

    Chapter VIII of the legal responsibility

    65th of local people's governments at various levels are not in accordance with the provisions of this Act to fulfill their reporting responsibilities, or the concealment, false, and delaying the report outbreaks of infectious diseases, or outbreaks of infectious diseases, epidemic, the organization has not timely medical treatment and control measures taken by the higher people's government shall order corrective action, notification criticism; caused by spread of infectious diseases, epidemic or other serious consequences, the responsible executive officer shall be given administrative sanctions; constitutes a crime, they shall be held criminally responsible.

    66th people's governments above the county level health administrative departments who violate this law, there is one of the following circumstances, by the people's governments, the higher people's government health administrative department shall order correction, criticism; caused by spread of infectious diseases, epidemic or other serious consequences, the responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions; constitutes a crime, shall be prosecuted for criminal liability:

    (A) Failure to carry out its notification of infectious diseases, the report or to publish the duties, or concealment, false, and delaying the report infectious diseases;

    (B) the occurrence or spread of infectious diseases that may occur when you did not take timely preventive and control measures;

    (C) Failure to carry out supervision and inspection duties in accordance with law, or not timely to investigate and prosecute violations of law;

    (D) is not timely investigation, treatment units and individuals in lower-level health administrative departments for non-performance of duties control of communicable diseases reported;

    (E) Violation of this Law and other dereliction of duty, malfeasance.

    67th people's governments above the county level are not in accordance with the provisions of this Act to fulfill infectious disease prevention and protection duties, by the people's government or higher-level people's government shall order corrective action, notification criticism; caused by spread of infectious diseases, epidemic or other serious consequences, the responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions; constitutes a crime, they shall be held criminally responsible.

    68th of disease prevention and control institutions that violate the provisions of this Law, one of the following circumstances by the people's governments above the county level health administrative departments shall order within a time limit, informed criticism, given a warning; the responsible person in charge and other directly responsible for personnel, shall be given demotion, dismissal, dismissal of the action, and may revoke the responsible persons practicing certificate; constitutes a crime, shall be prosecuted for criminal liability:

    (A) Failure to carry out its responsibilities for monitoring infectious diseases;

    (B) Failure to perform according to the report infectious diseases, reporting responsibilities, or the concealment, false, and delaying the report infectious diseases;

    (C) Failure to take the initiative to collect information on infectious diseases, or outbreaks of infectious diseases outbreaks report fails to timely information and analysis, investigation, verification;

    (4) found that infectious disease outbreaks, is not based on duty to take timely measures stipulated in this Law;

    (E) intentionally leaked patients with communicable diseases, pathogen carriers, suspected patients with communicable diseases, close contacts involving personal privacy information, information.

    69th violation of the provisions of medical institutions, one of the following circumstances by the people's governments above the county level health administrative departments shall order correction, criticism, given a warning; caused by spread of infectious diseases, epidemic or other serious consequences, negative have the responsibility of the executive officers and other persons directly responsible shall be given demotion, dismissal, dismissal of the action, and may revoke the responsible persons practicing certificate; constitutes a crime, shall be prosecuted for criminal liability:

    (A) does not bear the unit in accordance with the provisions of infectious disease prevention, control, hospital infection control roles and responsibilities of the prevention of infectious diseases within the region to work;

    (B) Failure to report infectious diseases in accordance with regulations, or the concealment, false, and delaying the report infectious diseases;

    (C) the discovery of infectious disease outbreaks, not in accordance with the provisions of patients with communicable diseases, providing patients with suspected communicable diseases medical care, on-site rescue, admissions, referral, or refused to accept the referral;

    (D) is not in accordance with the provisions of this unit is infectious pathogens, contaminated sites, articles, as well as the implementation of sterilization of medical waste disposal, or harmless;

    (E) is not in accordance with regulations for disinfection of medical equipment, or in accordance with the provisions of first use of medical equipment had not been destroyed, re-used;

    (Vi) in medical treatment is not in accordance with the provisions of the process of keeping medical records information;

    (Vii) intentionally leaked patients with communicable diseases, pathogen carriers, suspected patients with communicable diseases, close contacts involving personal privacy information, information.

    70th of blood collection agencies have not reported outbreaks of infectious diseases in accordance with the provisions of, or the concealment, false, and delaying the report outbreaks of infectious diseases, or the non-implementation of the relevant state regulations, resulting in blood caused by blood-borne diseases occur, by the people's governments above the county level health administrative department shall order correction, criticism, given a warning; caused by spread of infectious diseases, epidemic or other serious consequences, the responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given demotion, dismissal, dismissal of the action, and can be according to law the practice of blood collection agency license revoked; constitutes a crime, they shall be held criminally responsible.

    Illegal collection of organizing others to sell blood or blood from the people's governments above the county level health administrative departments shall be banned, confiscated illegal gains and may also impose a fine of less than 100,000 yuan; constitutes a crime, they shall be held criminally responsible.

    第 七十一条 frontier health and quarantine organ, animal epidemic prevention agencies did not carry out its duties of notification of infectious diseases, from the relevant departments shall order corrective action within their respective mandates, criticism; caused by spread of infectious diseases, epidemic or other serious consequences, negative have the responsibility of the executive officers and other persons directly responsible shall be given demotion, dismissal, dismissal of the action; constitutes a crime, they shall be held criminally responsible.

    72nd railways, transport, civil aviation operating units are not in accordance with the provisions of this Act dealing with the priority shipping infectious diseases as well as against infectious diseases, drugs and medical equipment, the departments concerned within a time limit shall be ordered to be given a warning; have serious consequences for , and on the responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given demotion, dismissal, expulsion penalty.

    73rd violates provisions of this Law, one of the following circumstances, causing or may lead to spread of infectious diseases, popular, and by the people's governments above the county level health administrative departments shall order within a time limit, confiscate illegal income below 50,000 yuan may concurrently be fine; have already obtained permits, the original licensing department can legally withheld or revoked license; constitutes a crime, shall be prosecuted for criminal liability:

    (A) the supply of drinking water drinking water supply units do not meet national health standards and sanitary-hygienic norms;

    (B) involves health and safety of drinking water products that do not meet national health standards and sanitary-hygienic norms;

    (3) for infectious disease prevention and disinfection products do not meet national health standards and sanitary-hygienic norms;

    (D) the sale, transportation in affected areas have been contaminated or infectious pathogens may be infectious pathogens, contaminated items, no disinfection treatment;

    (V) production of biological products units of blood products do not meet national quality standards.

    74th violates provisions of this Law, one of the following circumstances by the local people's governments above the county level health administrative departments shall order correction, criticism, given a warning, had obtained a license, the temporary suspension or revocation of permits according to law; caused by spread of infectious diseases, epidemic and other serious consequences, the responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given demotion, dismissal, dismissal of the action, and may revoke the responsible persons practicing certificate; constitutes a crime, be held criminally responsible:

    (A) disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions and pathogenic micro-organisms in experimental units that do not meet State requirements and technical standards, for infectious disease pathogens, the sample is not strictly managed according to the provisions, resulting in laboratory infections and the spread of pathogenic micro-organisms;

    (B) violation of state regulations, collection, preservation, carrying, transport and use of infectious bacteria and viruses and infectious disease testing samples;

    (C) disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, non-implementation of the relevant state regulations, resulting in blood due to the use of blood products caused by blood-borne diseases occur.

    75th of the quarantine without the sale, transportation and zoonotic infectious disease of wild animals, domestic animals and poultry, and by the local people's governments above the county level animal husbandry and veterinary administrative departments shall be ordered to stop illegal activities, and shall be given administrative punishment.

    Article 76th state to confirm the construction of the natural foci of water conservancy, transportation, tourism, energy and other large construction projects, without a health survey construction, or not in accordance with the views of disease prevention and control of infectious diseases to take the necessary prevention and control measure, by the people's governments above the county level health administrative departments shall order within a time limit and give a warning at 5000 yuan yuan shall be imposed in these three; overdue correction, a fine of 30,000 yuan more than 100,000 yuan shall be imposed, and can be to draw the people's government based on duties and powers shall be ordered to stop building, close.

    第 七十七条 units and individuals who violate this law, leading to spread of infectious diseases, epidemic, to another person to person, property damage, they shall bear civil liability according to law.

    Chapter IX Supplementary Provisions

    78th Article of this Law the following terms mean:

    (A) patients with communicable diseases, suspected patients with communicable diseases: refer to health administrative departments under the State Council issued the "People's Republic of Communicable Disease Prevention Act stipulated that the diagnostic criteria of infectious diseases", in line with infectious patients and suspected patients with communicable diseases diagnostic criteria were .

    (B) pathogen carriers: infected with pathogens, no clinical symptoms but it can discharge pathogens people.

    (C) epidemiological investigation: refers to the population distribution of diseases or health conditions and their determinants surveys and make disease prevention and control measures and health care measures.

    (Iv) epidemic point: that pathogens from the source of infection to spread around the smaller the range, or single foci.

    (V) affected areas: refers to an outbreak of infectious diseases in the population, popular, its when you can spread pathogens to spread around the area.

    (Vi) Zoonotic diseases: refers to the common man and vertebrate animals suffering from infectious diseases such as plague, rabies, schistosomiasis, and so on.

    (Vii) natural foci: that certain pathogens can cause human diseases of wild animals in nature and long-term existence and circulation areas.

    (8) Vector Biology: from the human pathogens that can be transmitted to humans or other animals, creatures, such as mosquitoes, flies, fleas and so on.

    (Ix) iatrogenic infection: refers to the medical services as a result of infections caused by pathogens.

    (10) Hospital Infection: refers to patients in hospital-acquired infections, including infections occurring during hospitalization and in hospital-acquired infections occurring after discharge from hospital, but does not include hospital admission before the beginning or already in the incubation period of infection. Hospital staff in hospital-acquired infection is also an nosocomial infection.

    (11) laboratory infection: refers to engage in laboratory work, as a result of infection caused by contact with pathogens.

    (12) bacteria and viruses: refers to the provisions of this law may cause an infectious disease occurring strains of bacteria, viruses, toxic species.

    (13) disinfection: refers to chemical, physical, biological methods to kill or eliminate pathogenic microorganisms in the environment.

    (14) disease prevention and control: refers to engage in disease prevention and control activities of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as operational activities with these bodies the same units.

    (15) Medical institutions: that in accordance with "medical institution regulations" permit to practice medical institutions to obtain, in disease diagnosis, treatment activities in institutions.

    79th of infectious diseases related to food, medicine, blood, water, medical waste and the management of pathogenic microorganisms and animal epidemic prevention and the Frontier Health and Quarantine, the law does not provide, respectively, the application of other relevant laws and administrative regulations.

    This law shall 80th December 1, 2004 into effect. (End)

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