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Collaborative Arrangement for the Prevention and
Management of Public Health Events in Civil Aviation
IHR-Capacities at Point of Entries:
Development and Maintenance
Austria´s Approach
Andreas M. Herndler
Crisis Manager and Contingency Planner, Aerodromes Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
and
Irene Kászoni-Rückerl
Communicable Diseases, Crisis Management, Disease Control Federal Ministry of Health and Women´s Affairs
Possible Points of Entries (Airports)
Vienna
* 22 Mio
Graz
* 900.000
Linz
* 500.000
Salzburg
* 1,8 Mio
Klagenfurt
* 200.000
Innsbruck
* 1 Mio
Population: 8,7 Mio, Area: 84000 km2
* Pax/year
- Legislative
- Coordination
- Strategy
- Recommendations
- Guidlines
Stakeholders
MoH • PHA
• veterinary authority
• Border vet services
• food safety authority
• provinces
• districts
National Stakeholders involved
(total: some 30)
Coordination & Communication
Health Authority
- Early Warning and Response System
(EWRS) -> Focal Points at MS
- Health Security Committee (HSC)
- IHR National Focal Point
Civil Aviation
Network Management Centre
(Eurocontrol)
European Aviation Crisis Coordination
Cell -> Focal Points at MS
(ECAC)
Competences – PHA
- Federal state with 9 provinces, 94 administrative districts
• Public health services jointly provided by federal, provincial and local authorities
- Federal PHA = MoH
• National IHR focal point
• HSC member, EWRS focal point under Dec.1082/2013/EU
• Strategic, public health protection & overall health policy
- Provincial and local PHA
• Operational
e.g. contact tracing, quarantine measures, disinfection
Capacity development
stakeholders identified
working group and plan developed
capacities at potential PoE assessed (IHR assessment tool)
recommendations for PoE capacity building (handbook)
constant work on capacity development and maintenance …
Emergency response plan
- Emergency Plan for PHE (negotiated by MoH, authorized by MoT)
• responsibilities
• chain of reporting
• isolated parking position
• instructions for ground handling, police, ambulance and rescue service, PHA, …
• recommendations for PPE + training
• passenger locator forms
• instructions for passengers in several languages (generic, EVD, MERS-CoV, …)
• quarantine area + catering
- PHA on-call service to arrive within a certain timeframe
- Aeronautical Information Circular / Information to railway companies
Procedure „medical emergency- infectious“
Procedure „medical emergency- infectious“
Procedure „medical emergency- infectious“
Example: Early Detection
AIC regarding Ebola Virus Disease (in place 2014/15)
- IATA-guidelines
• fever
• appearing obviously unwell
• persistent coughing
• impaired breathing
• persistent diarrhea
• persistent vomiting
• skin rash
• bruising or bleeding without previous
injury
• confusion of recent onset
- please ask the passenger if he had
been to one the countries with the last
21 days:
• Guinea,
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone or
• Nigeria
- report as
„medical emergency infectious“
Implementation and Training
Exercises: medical emergency infectious patient
- Full Scale Exercise Vienna Airport
- Partial Exercises smaller airports
- Table Top Exercise railway company
Core Capacities at PoE – further Development
- full legal implementation of IHR
federal structure demands further legal adaptations
e.g. appointment of MD of aerordrome operators as PHA…
- designation and nomination of PoE
- transfer of Emergency Plan for PHE to PHA
Challenges
- disinfection of aircrafts
- disinsection of aircrafts
- vector control
- acquisition of passenger data
Ing. Andreas M. Herndler, MBA MPA Crisis Manager and Contingency Planner, Aerodromes
Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
Radetzkystrasse 2, A-1030 Vienna
+43 1 71162-659812
Mag. Irene Kászoni-Rückerl Communicable Diseases, Crisis Management, Disease Control
Federal Ministry of Health and Women´s Affairs
Radetzkystrasse 2, A-1030 Vienna
+43 1 71100-644641
Thank you!