A draft law has set out a number of measures to further protect the personal safety of doctors after frequent incidents that shocked the nation in which medical staff members were seriously harmed, an official from China"s top legislature said on Friday.

The draft law on practicing physicians is to be submitted to a session of the Standing Committee of the National People"s Congress, the country"s top legislative body, which will open on Monday, for a second review.

The draft law highlights the principle that doctors" dignity and personal safety are inviolable, clarifying that neither any organization nor individual should disturb doctors" work and lives, according to Zang Tiewei, the spokesman of the NPC Standing Committee"s Legislative Affairs Commission.

He made the remark while introducing the draft at a news conference on Friday, in response to recent cases in which doctors and medical staff members were violently injured or even stabbed to death.