Checklist items identified by two or more working groups as highest priority for health system resilience
| System for reporting | This facility currently has a system for reporting infectious disease cases |
| Sufficient financing | This facility currently has sufficient financing available to provide essential core health system capacities. |
| Protocols for hazardous waste | This facility currently has protocols (and has disseminated these protocols) for handling of infectious/hazardous waste. |
| Plans for distributing emergency funding | Health administrators currently have plans (and have disseminated these plans) for authorising and distributing emergency funding to health facilities (eg, to acquire additional supplies and resources, ensure healthcare worker compensation) both at the central and local levels. |
| Established relationships with community | This facility has engaged and established relationships with community leaders and decision makers to help foster community trust in the healthcare system. |
| Plans for coordinating with other facilities | This facility currently has plans (and has disseminated these plans) on how to coordinate with other facilities (including public and private) in the event that it needs to transfer patients or share supplies. This might be accomplished through the creation of memorandums of understanding. |
| Established leadership hierarchy | This facility has established leadership within each level of the health system (ie, local, district, regional). |
| Represented at Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) | The Ministry is represented at the EOC and is part of the official command structure, and there is an organised network of healthcare centres that can feed into the EOC. |
| Support workforce training | Health administrators can currently support the quick healthcare workforce training necessary for outbreak response, including proper infection control practices and how to treat, isolate and report cases. |