Artikel B

1. At all times
The capacities:
a) to provide access to (i) an appropriate medical service including diagnostic facilities located so as to allow the prompt assessment and care of ill travellers, and (ii) adequate staff, equipment and premises;
b) to provide access to equipment and personnel for the transport of ill travellers to an appropriate medical facility;
c) to provide trained personnel for the inspection of conveyances;
d) to ensure a safe environment for travellers using point of entry facilities, including potable water supplies, eating establishments, flight catering facilities, public washrooms, appropriate solid and liquid waste disposal services and other potential risk areas, by conducting inspection programmes, as appropriate; and
e) to provide as far as practicable a programme and trained personnel for the control of vectors and reservoirs in and near points of entry.
2. For responding to events that may constitute a public health emergency of international concern
The capacities:
a) to provide appropriate public health emergency response by establishing and maintaining a public health emergency contingency plan, including the nomination of a coordinator and contact points for relevant point of entry, public health and other agencies and services;
b) to provide assessment of and care for affected travellers or animals by establishing arrangements with local medical and veterinary facilities for their isolation, treatment and other support services that may be required;
c) to provide appropriate space, separate from other travellers, to interview suspect or affected persons;
d) to provide for the assessment and, if required, quarantine of suspect travellers, preferably in facilities away from the point of entry;
e) to apply recommended measures to disinsect, derat, disinfect, decontaminate or otherwise treat baggage, cargo, containers, conveyances, goods or postal parcels including, when appropriate, at locations specially designated and equipped for this purpose;
f) to apply entry or exit controls for arriving and departing travellers; and
g) to provide access to specially designated equipment, and to trained personnel with appropriate personal protection, for the transfer of travellers who may carry infection or contamination.