Tasks

• Providing advice by telephone and on-site support for health authorities, doctors and hospitals in the centre's area of responsibility
• Obtaining and forwarding up-to-date epidemiological information
• Providing support on diagnosis in consultation with the Diagnostic Centre
• Providing decision-making assistance (also on-site) on the isolation, referral or transfer to the treatment centre of a patient suspected of having a certain disease
• Logistical organization of ambulance services
• Notifying cases to the responsible state (i.e. regional) healthcare authorities and to the Robert Koch Institute according to the German Infection Protection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz "IfSG")
• Press and public relations work

• Coordination of anti-epidemic measures in case of an outbreak of highly contagious and life-threatening disease.

  • Post-exposure prophylaxis
  • Ordering and reviewing disinfection measures and waste disposal
  • Ordering and organizing an autopsy and the funeral of a deceased person
  • Providing assistance in identifying and tracing contact persons
• Accessing and/or calling in further special technical expertise
• Accessing suitable, risk-adapted personal protective equipment (PPE) and providing qualified staff, if it does not seem possible to transfer a patient from an external hospital to the treatment centre