Department of Health
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Port Health
The Port Health Office enforces relevant provisions of the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance and the International Health Regulations at the seaport, Hong Kong International Airport and land control points of Hong Kong so as to prevent infectious diseases from being introduced into or carried away from the territory.
Services include :
| 1. | At the seaport : pre-arrival health clearance of incoming vessels in the form of free pratique, health clearance through inspection at the quarantine anchorages, radio medical advices to ships at high seas, issue of Ship Sanitation Control Certificate and Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificate. |
| 2. | At the Airport : surveillance of the food catering services provided for airlines, monitoring of hygiene and sanitation standard within the Airport, and management and care of air disaster victims. |
| 3. | Air , sea and land control points : inspection of air, sea and land control points, and setting up of 'Health Post' to assist needed travellers. |
| 4. | Travel health : our service runs 2 Travel Health Centres to offer individual travel health assessment for travelers, and give health advice, travel health information, travel-related vaccinations and other preventive medications. We also promote travel health in the community and maintain a website providing travel health information for travelers, including global disease outbreak news, health advices for diseases prevention, guidelines for travel safety under all sorts of environments, and vaccination advices. (For travel health information, please visit our Travel Health Service Website). |
| 5. | Permits : issue of import permits for human corpse, infectious agents, biological materials containing / suspected to be containing infectious agents, and issue of cremation permits. |
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Last revision date: 13 Nov 2008