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Shanghai Municipal Public Health Bureau
The Major Duties are:
1. To implement the guidelines, policies, laws, rules and regulations related to the work of public health; to study and draw up the drafts of local laws, rules and policies concerning the work of public health in the light of the actual circumstances of this Municipality, and organize the implementation of the laws, rules and policies concerned.
2. To organize the formulation of the development planning and annual plan of this Municipality¡¯s public health undertakings according to this Municipality¡¯s overall planning for national economy and social development, and organize their implementation.
3. To organize and carry out the health education of the whole people; to be responsible for the formulation and organization of implementation of prevention and treatment planning for infectious diseases and chronic non-infectious diseases, to monitor infectious diseases according to law, to carry out the emergent handling of major outbreaks of epidemic situations and diseases, and to prevent and control the occurrence and infestation of epidemic situation and disease; to be responsible for the establishment of this Municipality¡¯s network of medical aid centers and organize the implementation of emergent medical aid for major outbreaks of disasters and accidents.
4. To practice, according to law, the supervision and administration of food hygiene, hygiene of public places, labor hygiene and occupational diseases, drinking water hygiene, cosmetics hygiene, radiation hygiene, school hygiene, construction projects hygiene and infectious diseases.
5. To study and direct the reform of medical institutions; to be responsible for the practice of permit system for medical institutions and equipping costly medical facilities and exercise supervision and administration thereof according to law; to be responsible for the formulation of the standards of medical quality and technical norms and supervise their implementation; to administer the clinical pharmaceutical work inside medical institutions according to law.
6. To mobilize and organize gratuitous blood donation of citizens, to supervise and administrate the collection and supply of blood of blood stations and blood plasma collection stations, as well as the quality of clinical use of blood.
7. To be responsible for the formulation of the development planning of traditional Chinese medicine and promote the coordinated development of traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
8. To study and formulate the plannings and policies of the work of community hygiene, rural hygiene, maternity and child hygiene and primary health care, and organize their implementation; to administrate special techniques of maternity and child care according to law.
9. To be responsible for the formulation of the planning of key medical science and technology development; to organize the tackling of key scientific research programs of medicine and health, and to direct the work of transformation and dissemination of scientific and technological achievements in medical research; to organize and carry out international exchanges and cooperation in the field of medicine and health.
10. To be responsible for the formulation of the plannings of medical education and development of public health talents; to direct and coordinate the organization and implementation of the appointment system of professional technological titles of health research series and the authentication system of professional technological practicing qualification; to be responsible for the formulation of professional ethical norms of medical technological personnel and organize the professional ethical education.