'Stop screening would-be workers'

By Shan Juan | China Daily | Updated: 2011-02-14 07:45

A masked man stages a sit-down protest in front of a hospital in Guangzhou, the capital of South China's Guangdong province, on Dec 22. His sign says: "Please do not use the regulations that ban hepatitis B tests as toilet paper." Provided to China Daily

BEIJING - Chinese medical institutions and the people who run them will face the possibility of public exposure and administrative punishments if they continue to provide screening tests to companies wanting to know if prospective workers are carriers of hepatitis B, China's top health authority has warned.