Gender words removed from hospital names

Hospitals and medical institutions in Beijing will not be allowed to include words such as man, male, woman, female, or use similar obvious gender-specific vocabulary in their names from June 1, under government regulations overseeing the medical services market.

Beijing municipal health bureau said its interim set of rules, formulated last year, will be put into force at the start of June.

The regulations followed a similar initiative from the Ministry of Health, which drew up rules for medical institutions and compiled a list of acceptable hospital vocabulary.