Medical

This document lists the COVID-19 notification circular letters received from Member States and Associate Members.

Resolution MSC.473(ES.2 ) provides recommendations and operating procedures to facilitate ship crew changes, access to medical care and travel of seafarers during the COVID-19 pandemic.The logistics of providing seafarers with immediate access to medical care and medical facilities and facilitating the medical evacuation of seafarers in need of urgent medical attention is a key element of the aforementioned document.

IMO resolution on seafarer vaccination.ICMA supports all efforts to “recognise seafarers as key workers and give them priority access to Covid-19 vaccines”. At this time, government agencies, industry, labour and seafarers’ welfare organisations are facilitating a wide range of efforts to introduce seafarers’ vaccines worldwide.

The document presents recommendations for institutions and organisations sending health care workers or emergency workers from the US to Ebola virus outbreak areas, and pre-departure assessment and post-arrival management of workers travelling from Ebola virus outbreak areas to the US.

A guide describing risk assessment and management guidelines for people potentially exposed to Ebola or Marburg viruses.The guidance provides recommendations for post-arrival risk assessment and management of potentially exposed travellers as part of the US domestic response to an Ebola or Marburg outbreak abroad.