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Beginning this year, China will try to establish within three
years a fully functioning system for disease prevention and control
and for emergency medical aid that covers both urban and rural
areas in order to increase our ability to deal with serious
epidemic diseases and other public health emergencies.
Premier Wen Jiabao made the remarks in his report on the work of
the government delivered at the opening of the Second Session of
the Tenth National People's Congress Friday.
"We need to maintain a high degree of vigilance and take firm
and effective measures to control SARS, AIDS, schistosomiasis and
other serious communicable diseases," he said.
Priority will also be given to improving medical and sanitation
conditions in rural areas and carrying out pilot projects on a new
type of rural cooperative medical care system and vigorously
promote the reform of the urban medical care and health service
system.
At the same time, an extensive patriotic sanitation campaign
should be carried out in both urban and rural areas, according to
the premier.
(Xinhua News Agency March 5, 2004)
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