The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) released a document urging hospitals at all levels to improve their diagnostic capability for contagious diseases, especially AIDS and tuberculosis on March 22.

According to the document, medical institutions at all levels should formulate and carry out regulations about contagious disease pre-examination and triage, isolation treatment, hospital infection management, and referral.

Hospitals should strengthen testing on AIDS and tuberculosis, taking timely protective measures if it is detected that a patient has a contagious disease or carries a pathogen.

Non-infectious disease designated medical institutions should transfer patients in a timely manner to medical institutions that specialize in infectious diseases to receive treatment.

Medical institutions at all levels should enhance hospital infection management, stopping iatrogenic transmission of infectious diseases. Outpatient departments with a high risk of infectious disease transmission such as fever clinics, diarrhea clinics, emergency departments, and blood transfusion departments should take strict protective measures to keep infectious diseases from spreading in hospitals.

According to the document, medical institutions should set up infectious disease reporting systems and raise awareness about infectious diseases among patients and vulnerable people.