The Chinese Ministry of Health Tuesday notified localities around the country to improve the work of their fever clinics in case of a possible recurrence of severe  acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

The ministry has required local health administrations to  improve layouts of fever clinics and offer specific diagnosis for  patients with a temperature.

The ministry also urged the clinics to transfer patients with  fever to better equipped hospitals, especially in Guangdong,  Guangxi, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Beijing and Tianjin, areas heavily hit by SARS earlier this year.

Any unit or person who violated relevant regulations on  epidemic reporting and patient diagnosis would be punished  according to law, the ministry said in a circular to all  localities.

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