Minister calls for ethical medicine

Improving the ethics of the country's medical professionals is a key task for the nation's universities, China's top health official has said.

Chen Zhu, the minister of health, made remarks to this effect at a two-day inter-ministerial meeting on medical education that concluded last Friday.

He said the medical community was beset by a general unwillingness to accept responsibility and a lack of awareness on the part of its members about their legal obligations.