After long preparation, the health department of central China's Henan Province formulated and published a plan for building a system for the treatment and cure of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). It is reportedly the country's first medical treatment system.

According to the program, a five-level network of designated hospitals, a clinic for voluntary consultation and examination, and a database on AIDS patients' medicine- taking and treatment, will all be put into operation by the end of November.

A responsible person with the health department said, as most of the AIDS patients in the province are concentrated in some townships and villages, the province will give them on-the-spot treatment through strengthening the construction of infrastructures and assignment of personnel in the designated township health centers and those in villages.

Patients in rural areas need to take their treatment cards. Medical wastes will be specially managed and doctors make rounds of visits to patients.

The program also includes the establishment of clinical agencies in hospitals for voluntary consultation and examination. The doctors and nurses for the agencies are all elite from departments of contagious and infectious disease and nursing care of various hospitals.

By People's Daily Online