Achievements of Dte. GHS for

2016-17

Introduction:

Airport Health Organization, Port Health Organizations and Airport and Border Quarantine Center

(APHOs/ PHOs/ ABQC) are subordinate offices of the Directorate General of Health Services. At

present, there are 10 PHOs and 11 APHOs, established at all major International Airports and Ports

and one Border Quarantine Centre at Attari Border, Amritsar.

LIST OF EXISTING 22 POEs

(APHOs/PHOs/BORDER CROSSING HEALTH UNIT)

Name of APHO Name of PHO Name of Land Border Crossing

1. Chennai

2. Tiruchirapalli

3. Bangalore

4. Hyderabad

5. Cochin

6. Ahmedabad

7. Trivandrum

8. Delhi

9. Kolkata

10. Mumbai

1. Mumbai

2. Kolkata

3. Chennai

4. Kandla

5. JNPT, Sheva

6. Cochin

7. Vishakhapatnam

8. Mandapam Camp

9. Marmagoa

10. Tuticorin

11. Mangalore

1. Attari Amritsar

These are statutory organizations and are discharging their regulatory functions, as delineated under

the Indian Aircraft (Public Health) Rules, 1954 and Port Health Rules, 1955, respectively. Apart from

this India is also signatory to the International Health Regulations, framed by WHO and therefore it is

obligatory on our part to implement these regulations. Accordingly, both Indian Aircraft Public Health

Rules as well as Indian Port Health Rules have been framed in agreement with the International

Health Regulations.

ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS, PORTS AND LAND BORDERS UNDER PROCESS

Name of Airport Name of PHO Name of Land Border Crossing 1. Amritsar

2. Calicut

3. Lucknow

4. Coimbatore

5. Varanasi

6. Goa

7. Jaipur

8. Nagpur

9. Pune

10. Srinagar

11. Gaya

12. Port Blair

13. Guwahati

14. Bagdogra

15. Patna

16. Mangalore

17. Imphal

18. Bhubaneshwar

17. Tirupati

1. Paradeep (Orissa)

1. Raxaul ( Bihar)

2. Jogbani ( Bihar)

3. Agartala (Tripura)

4. Petrapole ( West Bengal)

5. Dawki (Meghalaya)

6. Moreh ( Manipur)

Objectives:

Main objective of the APHO/PHOs is to prevent the spread of infectious diseases of epidemic

proportions from one country to another, with minimum interference to the world traffic. Some of the

important functions of these organizations are – Health Screening of International Passengers,

Quarantine, Clearance of Dead Bodies, Supervision of Airport Sanitation, Vaccination to International

Passengers, Vector Control, etc. Apart from this, issuance of Ship Sanitation Certificate is another

major responsibility at International Ports.

WHO has notified a list of Yellow Fever Endemic Countries, under IHR and any person coming to

India from these notified endemic countries is required to possess valid Yellow Fever Vaccination

Certificate, failing which, such passengers are quarantined for a maximum period of six days. In the

light of changing global health scenario, existing IHR have been revised by WHO (IHR 2005) and

these new IHR have come into effect from June, 2007. In order to revise our own rules, in tune with

IHR, a number of workshops have been organized by Directorate General of Health Services and

finally, the amended draft Rules is under final stage of approval from Law Ministry.

For development of core capacities at all the Points Of Entry (POEs) for dealing with Public Health

Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), task force meeting of all the stakeholders from the all

the disciplines including Radio nuclear, Chemical, Atomic and Zoonosis have been held and the

process of development of Contingency Plans and Capacity Building at all the POEs has been

initiated. Contingency Plans of POEs have been shared with the stakeholders. After implementation of

FSS Act, the VIP Food related function have been authorized and are being performed by POEs.

Designation of APHOs/PHOs/ABQC as Designated Officers is under consideration of FSSAI.

The Achievements of Dte. GHS are as below:

5 Batches of Field Worker Trainings Conducted at APHO Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and PHO

Kandla. Total 77 Field Worker Trained.

In Picture: Field Worker Trainings Conducted at APHO Kolkata

Coordinated and Facilitated Training for Operationalization of 17 New Yellow Fever Vaccination

Centres.

7 Yellow Fever Vaccinations centres has been established namely - Family Welfare Regional

Training Centre, Mumbai; AIIMS Raipur; AIIMS Bhubaneswar; AIIMS Bhopal; AIIMS Patna;

District Hospital Raipur; and BJMC Pune. Now there are total 40 Yellow Fever Vaccination

Centres in the country.

In Picture: Inauguration of Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre at FWRTC, Mumbai.

Sensitization of Immigration Officers done at Airports for MERS-CoV, Ebola, Zika etc.

Sensitization of Medical Officers accompanying Haj Pilgrims, for MERS-CoV.

In Picture: Haj Pilgrims

Field Worker Manual developed.

Public Health Measures for All Hazards Approach Under International Health Regulation(IHR) for

Global Health Security (GHSA) manual developed.

Quarantine Centre at Cochin started in November, 2015.

In Picture: Field Worker Manual

Legislative Rules for APHO/PHO drafted and processed for Notification.

General Contingency Plan has been developed for Public Health Emergency of International

Concern (PHEIC) like Ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV, etc. for APHO, PHO and Land Borders

In Picture – GHSA Manual

In Picture: Inauguration of Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre at APHO Cochin, November

2015

SSCC/SSCEC/Fumigation Charges for Woollen Clothes have been revised.

Internal Assessment Checklist to assess Core Capacities at POEs has been developed and tested at

all POEs.

Bi-Annual Review Meeting conducted for all Point of Enteries (POEs) in Mumbai and Bhopal

respectively.

In Picture: APHOs/PHOs/ABQ Review Meeting at Bhopal on 12-13 April 2015

Approximately 338 International Conferences have been granted permissions.

Coordinated and facilitated SON/ENC for approximately, 20 individuals, who want to study

abroad.

Technical Comments have been given on MOU between India and various countries, namely, Sri

Lanka, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Cote d’Ivory, etc.

National Consultation on Strengthening Inter-Sectoral Coordination for IHR (2005) Workshop

conducted in November, 2015 at Goa.

In Picture: National Consultation on Strengthening Inter-Sectoral Coordination for IHR

(2005) Workshop on 18-19 November 2015, Goa

Following Reporting Formats have been developed:

o Monthly Reporting Format for APHO/PHO/Border Crossings.

o Monthly Reporting Format for Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres.

Following Certificate Formats have been developed:

o Yellow Fever Vaccine Exemption Certificate.

o Dead Body Clearance Certificate.

Following Guidelines/Advisory/SOPs have been developed:

o SOP for Mechanism of International Communication during PHEIC.

o Advisory of MERS-CoV and Ebola for Travellers, Immigration Officers and POE Officers.

o Ebola Film has been developed.

o Guidelines for Dead Body Clearance.

o Financial Guidelines for Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres managed by State Govt.

o Guidelines prepared for Referral Hospitals for Medical Emergencies at POEs.

o Document on Roles and Responsibility of various Stakeholders for the compliance of IHR

(2005) has been drafted.

o Advisory for Zika Virus has been prepared for Travellers, Airlines and Immigration

Officers.

o Medical Tourism SOP and concept has been prepared.

Following Trainings have been coordinated and facilitated for POE Staff:

o Training workshop on health program in India –progress & prospects for public health

specialist CHS in January, 2015.

o Training of 17 APHOs/PHOs in Food Safety, in coordination with FSSAI.

o Training workshop on Risk communication in April, 2015.

In Picture: Training workshop on Risk Communication on 15-16 April,2015 in Delhi.

o Training Workshop on Planning, Preparedness & Response to Radiation in October, 2015

and June- July, 2016.

o Training of Finance and Hospital Procurement at National Institute of Financial

Management, Faridabad in January 2016; April, 2016 and November, 2016.

In Picture: Training for Medical and Para- Medical Staff on All Health Hazard approach on 22-

24 August 2016, Hyderabad

o Training on SSC/ SSEC for 104 Medical and Para-medical Staff of APHOs/PHOs at

Mumbai, Cochin, Hyderabad and Kolkata.

o Training Workshop of IHR on Ship Sanitation Certificate for 40 Officers at Vizag.

In Picture: Training Workshop of IHR on Ship Sanitation Certificate at Vizag on 18-19

October,2016.