Legal basis: Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases
Article 13 People's governments at all levels shall organize mass health activities, carry out health education on the prevention of infectious diseases, advocate civilized and healthy lifestyles, improve public awareness of the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and their ability to cope with them, strengthen environmental sanitation construction, and eliminate the harm of rodents and vectors such as mosquitoes and flies.
The administrative departments of agriculture, water conservancy and forestry of the people's governments at all levels shall be responsible for guiding and organizing the elimination of rodent and schistosomiasis hazards in farmland, lakes, rivers, pastures and forest areas, as well as the hazards of other animals and vectors that spread infectious diseases.
The administrative departments of railways, transportation and civil aviation shall be responsible for organizing the elimination of rodents, mosquitoes, flies and other vectors in transportation and related places.
Article 30 When disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, blood collection and supply institutions and their personnel performing their duties discover the epidemic situation of infectious diseases as stipulated in this Law or other outbreaks, epidemics and infectious diseases with unknown causes, they shall follow the principle of territorial management of epidemic situation reporting and report according to the contents, procedures, methods and time limits stipulated by the State Council or the administrative department of health of the State Council.
When military medical institutions provide medical services to the public and discover the epidemic situation of infectious diseases specified in the preceding paragraph, they shall report it in accordance with the provisions of the health administrative department of the State Council.
Article 39 When a medical institution discovers a Class A infectious disease, it shall take the following measures in time:
(a) patients and pathogen carriers shall be treated in isolation, and the isolation period shall be determined according to the results of medical examination;
(two) for suspected patients, isolated treatment in designated places before diagnosis;
(3) To conduct medical observation and take other necessary preventive measures in designated places for patients, pathogen carriers and close contacts of suspected patients in medical institutions.
Refuse isolation treatment or leave isolation treatment without authorization before the expiration of the isolation period, and the public security organ may assist the medical institution to take compulsory isolation treatment measures.
When a medical institution finds a patient with a Class B or Class C infectious disease, it shall take necessary treatment and control measures according to the condition.
Medical institutions must disinfect and dispose of the places, articles and medical wastes contaminated by infectious disease pathogens in their own units in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations.