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Hunan Province, Birth Defects Prevention

Original Language Title: 湖南省出生缺陷防治办法

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Chapter I General

In order to strengthen the prevention and control of births and to improve the quality of the population of birth, the People's Republic of China's Child Health Act, the People's Republic of China Population and Family Planning Act and other relevant laws, regulations have been developed in conjunction with this province.

Article 2

This approach refers to the physical structure, functionality or anachronism that occurred before the birth of a baby.

Article 3 Deficiency prevention should be guided by the principles of government ownership, sectoral collaboration and social participation, and adhere to the approach to prevention and integration.

Article IV

More than the people at the district level are responsible for the specific management and supervision of birth defects.

The human resources security, education, civil affairs, finance and environmental protection sectors of the population at the district level are managed in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

The Women's Federation, the Disabled People's Federation, social groups such as the Red Cross and the Town People's Government, street offices, villagers' councils and resident councils should cooperate in the prevention and treatment of birth defects.

Article 5

The Maternal and Child Health Service is responsible for technical guidance, monitoring analysis and health education, in line with the mandate of the health-care service.

Article 6. The child-career should learn from the knowledge of good birth, raise awareness, act with the initiative to receive pre-marital medical examinations, pre-primary medical examinations, prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis and screening of newborn diseases, and prevent the occurrence of birth defects.

Article 7 encourages the social forces to support and participate in the prevention of abortion deficiencies, including through donations, volunteer activities.

In support of research institutions in the area of birth defect prevention and research to promote the diversion of STDs and mature technologies.

Chapter II Prevention and rescue

Article 8. Governments at all levels should organize education on birth defects, universal access to scientific knowledge for the prevention of birth defects, and create a socio-economic environment conducive to the improvement of the quality of the birth population and increase awareness of the prevalence of birth defects for all.

Article 9

The information on education for the prevention of sexual abuse is prepared by the Ministry of the People's Government's Unification of Health Care.

Article 10

The trade unions of Article 11 State organs, social groups and business units, and women's organizations should organize this unit's parentage to learn from the defects in birth.

The Government's education administration should guide and promote the integration of birth defects into health education curricula in higher schools.

The media, such as newspapers, television, radio and the Internet, should strengthen awareness of the deficiencies of birth and free transmission of public goods and publicity programmes.

Article 13. The environmental protection sector of the people at the district level should strengthen the atmosphere, soil, water conservation, environmental quality monitoring and research related to birth defects and strengthen environmental pollution governance.

Article 14.

Article 15. Female units should take measures to improve the health conditions of female workers and to refrain from arranging female workers for work that is tabooting and from engaging in toxic hazardous operations; female workers who are more than seven months of pregnancy shall not extend working hours and arrange night work.

Article 16

Villagers' councils, residents' councils responsible for public health and family planning should be informed in a timely manner of the marital status of the child-bearing age in the Territory and send relevant information to the grass-roots health-care services to assist them in their pre-marital health guidance and pre-care services.

Article 17 The marital registration body shall provide information on the prevention of defects in the birth of a child who is registered with the marriage, leading to its participation in pre-marital medical examination.

The Government's health-care service should take steps to facilitate the participation of child-bearing personnel in pre-marital medical examinations, including the establishment of pre-marital medical checkpoints near marriage registration sites.

More than 18 per cent of the population at the district level should include pre-marital medical examinations, pre-primary medical examinations, sophate additions into basic public services, free service and publicize access and means of access to the service. It is encouraged to increase the number of abortion deficiencies in order to combat the types of basic public services projects.

Medical institutions responsible for pre-marriage, pre-primary medical examination should provide quality inspection services for child-bearing-age personnel in accordance with pre-marital, pre-primary health norms and prescribed inspection projects, provide medical check-up certificates and establish health files; and review the discovery of high risk of birth defects should inform the parties of proposals to prevent, treat and take appropriate medical measures.

The maternal and child health service institutions should be equipped with an added organizational work. The grass-roots health-care services should be provided for the addition of acetic acid for women in the first three months of pregnancy and the establishment of a service information cell, which shall be assisted by the Villagers' Committee, the residents' councils responsible for public health, family planning, and other medical institutions should provide for pre-primary medical examinations, the provision of an additional acid to the primary health-care service provider, the addition of an early woman to an acid, and the establishment of a bank account.

Article 19 Women who have committed serious birth defects are ready to continue their pregnancies, and both spouses should receive pre-primary medical examinations at the district level. Upon inspection, medical institutions should provide information to the parties on the use of long-lasting contraceptive measures and report in writing on the local health-care-dependent executive branch, and the health-care sector shall not issue maternity certificates.

Article 20

Article 21, the Government's health-care executive branch should organize a network of provincial, municipal, district, district, antenatal screening and diagnostic services in townships.

Medical institutions should establish maternity-care files for pregnant women, provide prenatal screening, pre-natal diagnosis and maternity-care services, and administer specific care for pregnant women with high-risk births.

Article 22 contains one of the following cases for pregnant women and shall be subject to prenatal diagnosis:

(i) A pre-natal screening found or suspected a omnibus;

(ii) Early pregnancy exposure to substances that may lead to a shortage of births;

(iii) There is a history of genetic illnesses or a serious birth defect;

(iv) The excess or scarcity of sheep;

(v) Primary maternal age is more than 35 years.

antenatal diagnosis recognizes the abnormality of births, and medical institutions should continue to inform pregnant women or their families in writing of the results that may occur in pregnancy and termination of pregnancy; and identify serious deficiencies should inform pregnant women about the timely termination of pregnancy.

Article 23 of the provincial Government's health-care delivery should organize a network of provincial, municipal, district, district, communes, four-tier newborn disease screening services in town, and organize screening of diseases such as pre-sexa dioxin, oxin, first-day hearing barriers.

The provincial Government's health-care delivery can increase the number of newborn disease screenings based on medical resources, mass needs, incidences of disease, and report on the State Department's health-care delivery.

More than the people at the district level should provide for the screening of newborn diseases in poor areas in accordance with national provisions.

Article 24 Prior to the introduction of newborn disease screening by medical institutions, newborn disease screening projects, conditions and costs should be communicated to the newborn guardian in real terms and with the consent of the signatory.

The screening of newborn diseases found unusually and should be informed that newborn guardians were in a position to do so.

Article 25 Medical institutions have found that newborn birth defects should be filled with the birth defects report card and the basic information registration form, the timely presentation of local maternal and child health services and referral services.

Article 26

The human resources security of the people at the district level and the health-care administration should incorporate the cost of patriarchal treatment and early rehabilitation in basic health insurance claims, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province.

The civil affairs component of the Government of the above-mentioned population should incorporate eligible birth defects into the scope of medical care in accordance with the law, and provide temporary assistance to families who are temporarily experiencing serious difficulties in saving their lives.

The Disabled People's Federation should organize early recovery training for eligible institutions to be qualified or equipped to help them restore basic functions and reduce the level of disability.

Chapter III Oversight management

In Article 27, the health-care administration of the people at the district level should improve the monitoring system of the current regional birth defect monitoring system, develop monitoring work programmes, organize monitoring and thematic investigations, capture and analyse the occurrence and trends of births deficiencies.

Article 28 provides services such as pre-marital medical examinations, pre-primary medical examinations, pre-natal screening, prenatal diagnosis, newborn disease screening, etc., and shall be subject to the corresponding qualifications of the law, in compliance with the regulations governing the operation of the relevant medical technology and not to disclose the privacy of the patient.

Article 29

Any unit or individual has the right to report to the Government of the people at the district level and its relevant authorities on the violation of the provisions of this approach.

The authorities that have received a complaint should be promptly investigated in accordance with the law and inform the complainant in writing of the results.

Chapter IV Legal responsibility

Article 31 Medical institutions and their medical personnel violate the provisions of this approach, which are sanctioned by laws, regulations and regulations such as the Child Health Act of the People's Republic of China, the Law on Psychologists of the People's Republic of China, the Medical Institutions Management Regulations:

(i) Inadequate access to pre-marital medical examinations, pre-primary medical screening, prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis, newborn disease screening;

(ii) Violations of the administrative regulations or the regulations governing the operation of medical technology;

(iii) No pre-marital medical examination and pre-primary medical examination, in accordance with the prescribed type of project;

(iv) A serious irresponsibility in prenatal screening, prenatal diagnosis and screening of newborn diseases should be found to have visible birth defects uncovered;

(v) Disclosure of the privacy of the patient, causing serious consequences.

In violation of the provisions of paragraph (iii) above, the Government of the people at the district level should remove its pre-marital medical examination, the Government's purchase of services and incorporate the corresponding credit records.

Article 32, in violation of article 15 of this approach, is punishable by the human resources security of the Government of the above-ranking people, the safe production supervision management, in accordance with the special protection provisions for female workers, and liability should be borne for damage to women workers.

In violation of this approach by grass-roots health-care service providers, failure to perform or delay the performance of their duties in the prevention and control of abortion is punishable by law by the competent and other direct responsibilities directly responsible.

Article 34 Governments at all levels and in sectors such as hygienic, human resources social security, education, civil affairs, finance and environmental protection violate the provisions of this approach, toys negligence, inclination, misappropriation, abuse of power, and administrative disposition of directly responsible supervisors and other direct responsibilities, in accordance with the law; and criminal responsibility, which constitutes a crime.

Chapter V

Article 55 of this approach is implemented effective 1 January 2016.