The Use of Mobile Solutions and Technologies to Ensure the Sanitary-Epidemiological Well-Being of the Population at the Present Stage

This review systematizes the data on the development and implementation of mobile technologies for rapid response to sanitary and epidemiological emergencies. It examines practical experience in using mobile laboratories to eliminate biological threats both in the Russian Federation and in neighboring and far abroad countries. To date, mobile biological laboratories are one of the tools used to respond to public health emergencies. They can operate autonomously anywhere in the world, performing thousands of tests per day using advanced laboratory diagnostic methods. Since 2006, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumers Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, together with the Russian AntiPlague Institute “Microbe” of the Rospotrebnadzor, has been developing and creating mobile laboratories mounted on truck chassis and pneumatic frame systems. Currently, 21 types of mobile laboratories have been developed and are in use in infectious disease foci, natural disaster zones, during elimination of humanitarian and man-made disasters, and to ensure safety during mass events with international participation. Russia’s experience in deploying mobile laboratories is in demand abroad. Mobile laboratories were used to eliminate the Ebola virus disease in the Republic of Guinea, to decipher an outbreak of intestinal infection in the Republic of the Congo, to ensure sanitary-epidemiological well-being in Lebanon during the emergency response to a complex man-made disaster amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. Further development and improvement of mobile technologies will expand their capacities in the fight against infectious diseases.

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