A senior health official of China told a press briefing Tuesday that the country vows to establish an effective epidemic reporting system that will cover various infectious diseases.
Vice Minister of Health Gao Qiang said that under that system the public health department will timely collect, analyze and report information about any disease that is highly infectious andposes severe danger to human health.
The reporting system will also cover measures adopted by the government and its requirement in controlling diseases, it will caution the public to pay attention to self protection whenever epidemic cases are found, he said.
He said that information exchange with the World Health Organization is a very important part of the system, which is a very effective way in controlling epidemic diseases.
(Xinhua News Agency June 24, 2003)
