The Role of the Coordination Council on the Issues of Sanitary Protection of the Territories of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States from the Importation and Spread of Particularly Dangerous Infectious Diseases in the Formation of a Unified System for Monitoring and Responding to Emergencies of Sanitary-Epidemiological Nature in the CIS

Abstract

Ensuring the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population is impossible without the development of international cooperation in the field of preventing and responding to biological emergency situations. To date, a unified system of monitoring and prompt response to emergencies in the field of public health of sanitary-epidemiological nature has almost been formed in the space of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). To implement legitimate interaction between the Commonwealth countries, it is necessary to develop a regulatory and methodological framework. For this purpose, the Coordination Council on the issues of sanitary protection of the territories of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States from the importation and spread of particularly dangerous infectious diseases has drawn a number of interstate documents, which were subsequently put into effect in the CIS. The paper presents the activities of the Coordination Council aimed at establishing and maintaining the functioning of a unified system for monitoring and prompt response to emergency situations and developing a regulatory and methodological framework that allows legitimate interaction between the Commonwealth countries.

Keywords

• ensuring sanitary and epidemiological well-being
• emergency situation
• epidemiological surveillance
• sanitary protection of the territory