Administrative Regulations on Technical Services for Family Planning
Administrative Regulations on Technical Services for Family Planning
Administrative Regulations on Technical Services for Family Planning
Order of the State Council [2001] No. 309
June 13, 2001
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 The present Regulations are formulated for the purpose of strengthening the administration of the technical services for family planning, controlling the quantity of the population, improving the quality of the population and safeguarding citizens' right to reproductive health.
Article 2 The present Regulations shall apply to all technical service institutions of family planning and their functionaries within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
Article 3 The technical services for family planning shall be administered with the principles of state guidance and individual voluntarism.
Citizens shall enjoy the right to informed choice regarding methods of contraception. The State shall safeguard citizens' right to obtain appropriate technical services for family planning.
The State shall provide free contraceptive and birth-control technical services to the couples at a childbearing age in rural areas, and the expenses incurred therefrom shall be borne by the local government. The central government shall grant proper subsidies to poor regions in the western part of the country.
Article 4 The family planning administrative department of the State Council shall be responsible for administrating the technical services for family planning throughout the country; the health and other related administrative departments of the State Council shall, within their own functions, support the family planning administrative department for doing well the technical services for family planning.
Article 5 The technical service network of family planning shall be composed of the family planning technical service institutions and other medical and health organizations offering technical services for family planning, and shall be incorporated into the local health plans.
The State shall, relying on scientific and technical progress, improve the technical service quality of family planning and encourage the research, development, introduction and promotion of new technologies, drugs and devices of family planning.
Chapter II Technical Services
Article 6 The technical services for family planning include technical instructions, consultations and clinical medical services relating to family planning.
Article 7 Family planning technical instructions and consultations shall include the following contents:
(1) Publicity, education and consultation relating to the science popularization of reproductive health;
(2) Offering contraceptive devices and related instructions, consultations and follow-up visits; and
(3) Offering relevant consultations and follow-up visits to those who have already been performed contraceptive or birth control operations and reversal of vasoligation or tubal ligation
Article 8 The technical service institutions of family planning at or above the county level may, within the authorized scope, carry out the following clinical medical services relating to family planning:
(1) medical examinations on contraception and birth control;
(2) diagnosis and treatment of complications caused by contraceptive or birth control operations or side effects caused by contraceptive devices;
(3) performance of contraceptive, birth control operations and reversal of vasoligation or tubal ligation; and
(4) implementation of other reproductive health programs relating to childbirth, birth control and sterility. The detailed services shall be jointly prescribed by the family planning administrative department and the health administrative department of the State Council.
Article 9 Couples who, due to birth of babies with diseases or disabilities, request birth of additional children shall apply for a medical appraisal to the family planning administrative departments at the county level and upon their permission through preliminary examinations, apply for a further medical appraisal by medical experts as organized by the family planning administrative departments of the people's government at the level of city divided into districts. Those who hold objections to medical appraisals may apply for the reappraisal to the family planning administrative departments of the people's government of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government. The medical appraisals as organized by the family planning administrative departments of the people's government of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government are final.
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