WHO/Europe and the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic is organizing a table-top and full-scale field exercise at Manas International Airport and the Republican Infectious Disease Hospital.

The exercise aims to test the national operational plan for detecting and managing infectious diseases at points of entry. The simulation exercise will focus on emergency response at a designated point of entry to review the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders at the airport, including communication, coordination, risk assessment, decision-making, referral, and case management.

The International Health Regulations (2005) set out core capacity requirements for State Parties, including components related to the public health response at the national level and capacities at a designated point of entry for responding to events that may constitute a public health emergency.

Participants will include:

• representatives from the Ministry of Health’s Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance Department, Centre for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance on Transport, and Republican Centre for Quarantine and Highly Dangerous Infections
• Border Control Service of the State Committee for National Security
• Customs Service of the Ministry of Finance
• Veterinary Inspectorate under the Ministry of Agriculture
• Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Ministry of Emergency Situations
• Directorate of the Manas International Airport.