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.
This book provides basic recommendations for injuries, illnesses and outbreaks on board ship. In reality it is often very difficult to make an accurate diagnosis of an infectious disease without laboratory investigations.It may be possible if there are very specific features such as a rash (varicella) or cluster of suggestive features (regular fever, enlarged spleen and history of mosquito bites in an endemic area). Because of the difficulty in making an accurate diagnosis on board ship you may have to give a variety of treatments each directed at different infections agents.
This document is an international medical guide for ships published by WHO. The content of the book is a comprehensive description of the various possible injuries and illnesses that can happen to the crew on board ship. Chapters are described on, among other things : first aid, shock, head injuries; eye injuries and diseases.
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.
The document outlines federal regulations for reporting death or illness on ships bound for the US.US regulations require the master of a ship bound for a US port of entry to immediately report any death or illness among the ship’s passengers or crew. This includes persons who go ashore or are removed from the vessel due to illness or death.
The document describes and explains the key fields on the Maritime Transport Sickness or Death Investigation Form. The document contains many explanations of the fields on the form, but does not cover all fields. If you have any questions about anything related to the form or marine reports, please email MaritimeAdmin@cdc.gov.
This document outlines the procedures for reporting death or illness on ships. The regulations require the master of a vessel sailing from a port outside the United States to a port in the United States to immediately report any death or certain illness among the vessel’s passengers or crew, including travellers who have disembarked or been removed from the vessel because of illness or death.
This article presents guidelines for cruise ships on the management of smallpox.Varicella, known as chickenpox, is the cause of outbreaks on cruise ships. This document provides guidelines for cruise ships on the reporting, investigation, management and control of chickenpox-related illnesses and deaths in passengers and crew members of cruise ships cruising to US ports.
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