China's Ministry of Health plans to ensure children with Hepatitis B are treated fairly by asking kindergartens not to refuse admission to this special group of children.
The Policy, Law and Regulation Division of MOH has issued a measure on the management of healthcare services of kindergartens and is now soliciting public opinions on it.
The measure states that newly-established kindergartens should obtain a sanitation evaluation report before enrolling students and they should arrange one full-time healthcare staff for every 150 students and one part-time healthcare staff if the number of students is less than 150. In addition, staff of kindergartens must obtain a health certificate and they must have a physical checkup each year. The measure says that kindergartens that violate above rules will warned or criticized.
The measure says that kindergartens should notify the guardian of a child who may have contracted an infectious disease to have the child separated immediately from the rest of children and only allow the child to return to the kindergarten after he or she has recovered and has a doctor's diagnosis certificate. In addition, kindergartens must not refuse children with normal liver function though their Hepatitis B test shows positive.
However, many Chinese parents worry that the measure may not be carried out smoothly as parents of other healthy children will refuse to let their child go to the same kindergarten with a Hepatitis B child.
