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Procedure Details

Summary

Procedure Name
6.3. Medical Quarantine
Responsible agency
Ministry of Health
ATR’s procedure categories
Quarantine, sanitation, and fumigation
Legal basis

Detail

Required documents

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Type of documents

Note

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For goods transported by road, rail, and air: cargo medical declaration, road, rail, air transport, cargo medical inspection/handling certificate goods and means of transport by road, railway, or air (if any);

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For goods transported by water: a copy of the cargo manifest; certificate of medical examination of goods (on board ships), boats (if any).

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Application form: In case the medical declarant requests medical examination and treatment of goods in order to issue a certificate of medical inspection/handling of goods.

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Process Steps

Step 1

Medical declaration for goods:

1. For goods transported by road, rail, or air: the declarant declares and submits the medical declaration of the goods, the certificate of medical inspection/handling of the goods (if any) to the border medical quarantine agency or through the National Single Window Portal before goods are allowed to be imported, exported, or transited.

2. For goods transported by sea: the declarant shall declare and submit a copy of the goods declaration and the certificate of medical examination of the goods (if any) to the border health quarantine organization or through the National Single Window Portal 12 hours before the goods are expected to be imported, exported or transited.

Step 2

Collect information before moving goods across borders

  • Information on the place of origin or transit of the goods;
  • Information on types, quantities, preservation and packing of goods and means of transportation.

Step 3

Information processing for goods

  1. Medical quarantine officers carry out medical examination of goods with risks, including:
    1. Goods transported through countries or territories with recorded cases of infectious diseases that the Ministry of Health requires to monitor;
    2. Goods carrying or showing signs of carrying pathogens or intermediates of infectious disease;
    3. Goods transported by means of transport have risk factors:
  • Means of transport passing through a country or territory where an infectious disease case has been recorded and the Ministry of Health requires supervision;
  • Means of transport carrying sick people or people suspected of having diseases or carrying pathogens of infectious diseases;
  • Means of transport carrying goods carrying pathogens of infectious diseases or suspected of carrying pathogens of infectious diseases.
    1. Goods with a notice of a competent authority about the risk of spreading infectious diseases.
  1. In case the goods have no risk factors, the medical quarantine officer shall supervise the goods while waiting for entry, exit or transit, including the following contents:
  1. Compare the medical declaration for the goods, except for the case where the goods are in transit without being unloaded from the vehicle;
  2. Supervision of infectious disease agents, infectious disease intermediates entering the goods.
  1. Carry out supervision as prescribed for imported goods awaiting import procedures before being transferred to a bonded warehouse located outside the border gate.
  2. In the course of supervision, if goods are detected as having intermediates of transmission of infectious diseases, pathogens of infectious diseases, or failing to ensure general sanitary conditions (including detection of waste, secretions, traces of vectors; goods with fungus, mold, and stench), medical quarantine officers collect more information about the medical treatment measures applied, need support, and propose control measures. medical examination on the medical declaration for goods.
  3. In case the goods do not fall into one of the prescribed cases, the medical quarantine officer shall certify the medical quarantine results and end the quarantine process.

Step 4

Checking documents of goods

The medical examiner checks the following documents:

  1. For goods transported by road, rail or air: medical declaration of goods, means of transport by road, rail, air, certificate of medical examination/handling of goods, means of transport by road, railway, by air (if applicable) Yes);
  2. For goods transported by water: a copy of the cargo declaration; certificate of medical examination of goods (on board ships), boats (if any).

Step 5

Actual inspection of goods

The medical quarantine officer requires the goods to be brought into the medical inspection area, and inspects the following contents:

  1. Contents declared with actual goods:
  2. General sanitary condition:
  3. Intermediaries of transmission of infectious diseases;
  4. Regulations on tools, containers, information written on labels; shipping terms;
  5. Evaluate the effectiveness of medical treatment measures applied;
  6. Take samples for testing in the following cases:
    1. Goods with risk factors include:
  • Goods transported through countries or territories with recorded cases of infectious diseases that the Ministry of Health requires to monitor;
  • Goods carrying or showing signs of carrying pathogens or intermediates of transmission of infectious diseases;
  • Goods transported by means of transport with risk factors:

- Means of transport passing through a country or territory with recorded cases of infectious diseases that the Ministry of Health requires to monitor;

- Means of transport carrying sick patients or people suspected of having diseases or carrying pathogens of infectious diseases;

- Means of transport carrying goods carrying pathogens of infectious diseases or suspected of carrying pathogens of infectious diseases.

  • Goods with a notice of a competent authority about the risk of spreading infectious diseases.
    1. Goods have intermediates that transmit infectious diseases, pathogens of infectious diseases or do not meet general sanitary conditions (including detection of wastes, secretions, traces of disease vectors; goods with dangerous conditions. fungus, mold, bad smell).
    2. Goods fall into one of the following cases:
  • Departing from or going through a country or territory where cases of infectious diseases of group A have been recorded without medical treatment;
  • Means of transport carrying goods departing from or going through a country or territory where cases of group A infectious diseases have been recorded but have not been medically handled.

Step 6

Medical treatment of goods

Based on the results of the actual inspection, the medical quarantine officer may apply one or more of the following measures:

  1. Sterilize and kill pathogens and vectors of infectious diseases;
  2. Forcible destruction or re-export of goods that cannot be killed off pathogens or infectious disease vectors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Online service can be processed at:

https://dichvucong.gov.vn/p/home/dvc-chi-tiet-thu-tuc-hanh-chinh.html?ma_thu_tuc=2.000981

 

Online service can be processed at:

https://dichvucong.gov.vn/p/home/dvc-chi-tiet-thu-tuc-hanh-chinh.html?ma_thu_tuc=2.000981