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The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Thursday ordered all administrative and medical departmentsto ensure accurate reporting of A(H1N1) influenza cases, in response to a medical expert’s query over false reports. Zhong Nanshan, a medical expert in Guangdong Province, was quoted by on Thursday’s Southern Metropolis Daily as saying that he did not believe there had been only 53 deaths of A(H1N1) flu nationwide.
Zhong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that some areas had left dead patients undiagnosed in order to conceal the real number of deaths from the flu.
Zhong said that “some areas have not been testing deaths from severe (pneumonia) and treating them as cases of ordinary pneumonia without a question,” the paper reported. Deng Haihua, spokesman of the MOH, said late on Thursday that the ministry welcomed supervision from all walks of society, including the media.
Deng said that the ministry had dispatched a total of nine teams to 12 provinces and autonomous regions to oversee prevention and treatment of the flu, especially treatment of severe cases.
He also promised that the ministry would continue to supervise local work and release information quickly. The ministry said on its website Wednesday, saying that it would start to update A(H1N1) flu information only once a week. Previously, it offered updates three times a week.
As of Sunday, almost 70,000 A(H1N1) flu cases had been reported on the mainland, with 53 deaths in total, according to the ministry.
Of all the flu cases reported last week, almost 90 percent were A(H1N1) cases, totaling
more than 10,000. So far, about 18.2 million people nationwide had been vaccinated, it said.
The ministry has advised the public to keep warm, to wash hands frequently and keep rooms ventilated daily.