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Special clinic set up for gay patients
By Zheng Caixiong (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-03-18 08:52
Shenzhen, the special economic zone in South China's Guangdong Province will
set up the country's first homosexual special outpatient department this year.
Cheng Jinquan, president of Shenzhen Municipal Hospital of Epidemic Diseases,
said the new special outpatient department is aimed to help prevent sexual
transmission diseases (STD) and AIDS from spreading in the southern metropolis,
through offering special medical service to the city's growing number of
homosexuals.
Shenzhen which borders Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is now
estimated to have about 100,000 homosexuals, tops the Chinese mainland cities.
And the figure is still gaining momentum.
"If everything goes smoothly, the new outpatient department will soon be able
to begin service," Cheng said yesterday.
Senior medical experts and doctors from abroad, mainly from Britain, will be
invited to work in the outpatient department, which will be set up in Cheng's
hospital, the physician said.
The hospital is now undergoing a Sino-foreign medical project with British
Royal Hospital in preventing and treating dermatosis and STD.
The project, Sino-Britain Service Centre of STD and Dermatosis, officially
began service on Tuesday.
In addition to offering medical service to local outpatients, the British
experts and doctors will also give lectures and exchange views on preventing and
treating STDs and dermatosis with local counterparts.
"AIDS and STD are actually threatening Shenzhen and even the whole of
Guangdong Province," Cheng said.
Guangdong has been estimated to have more than 30,000 AIDS patients and virus
carriers by the end of last year.
Guangdong now comes the fourth in detected AIDS patients and its virus
carriers in the country, following Yunnan, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
And last year alone, a total of 191 people were detected to be AIDS patients,
Cheng said.
And in medical examinations for 120,000 pregnant women in Shenzhen last year,
550 were diagnosed to have contracted syphilis, Cheng added.
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