Reports released from nation's top health authority pledged to bring in norms and procedures that will help to control prejudice against people with HIV/AIDS at medical care units that protect patients' right to treatment.

People suffering from HIV are generally denied off medical treatments at general hospitals. This proves to be true in case of surgeries that involves the exposure of blood, says Hao Yang, deputy director of the disease prevention and control bureau under the Ministry of Health.

"I occasionally receive calls for help from patients who were denied surgeries because of discrimination by medics," he said at the Second China Red Ribbon Beijing Forum.

A 2009 poll done by one of the major medical institutions, comprising of the Ministry of Health and UNAIDS, found out that more than 12 percent of 2,096 respondents had been refused for treatment because they had HIV/AIDS.

"The Ministry of Health is working on concrete countermeasures and policies," Hao said. But he denied to state that the feasibility of administratively punishing hospitals if they refuse medical attention at all.

Meanwhile health care units like Beijing Ditan Hospital, has adopted a new technique, it specializes in treating infectious diseases, and presently has integrated new departments, such as one for ear, nose and throat care, to treat patients other hospitals said `no' on the face.