- Passenger medical assessment for communicable diseases
- Maintaining communicable disease surveillance system
- Dead body clearance
- Monitoring of disinsection and disinfection of aircraft
- Routine monitoring and supervision of premises for sanitation
- Inspection of food establishment
- Public health emergency management
- Training of public health staff and students
- Passenger medical assessment for communicable diseases
- Maintaining communicable disease surveillance system
- Granting pratique to ships
- Dead body clearance
- Issue of ship sanitation certificates
- Routine monitoring and supervision of premises for sanitation
- Inspection of food establishment
- Public health emergency management
- Training of public health staff and students
- Vaccinations are given for travelers who request Yellow Fever, Meningococcal and Oral Polio vaccines
- Issue of International Vaccine cards
- Provide health education to travelers who request vaccines and refer them to necessary facilities if needed ( eg : travelers are referred to Anti Malaria Campaign if need to get Malaria Prophylaxis)
- Programming, planning, implementation, supervision, and monitoring of activities of Public Health Offices at Points of Entry (Ports and airports).
- Providing technical guidance to staff of port/airport health offices at Points of Entry (PoEs).
- Maintain IHR core-capacities at PoEs.
- Monitoring of implementation of IHR- 2005, Quarantine Ordinance, Food Act, National authority on tobacco & alcohol (NATA) Act, Nuisance Ordinance and Other relevant legislations.
- Training public health staff, undergraduate and post graduate students on border health security and IHR 2005.
- Conduct review meetings with the staff of the units under the Quarantine Unit
- Quarantine Unit and Epidemiology Unit act as Co-National Focal Points of IHR- 2005 to coordinate with WHO and member states.
- Improving the facilities at Quarantine Unit, Assistant Port Health office and Public Health offices at Points of Entry (PoEs).
- Referring the disease positive patients of resident visa applicants to relevant Public Health Campaigns of Ministry of Health.
- Maintaining data related to disease positive inbound migrants.
