Participation of AKUT SOS CLEAN at the 8th International Symposium on CBRN Protection and Decontamination Münster

Participation of AKUT SOS CLEAN8th International Symposium on CBRN Protection and DecontaminationMünster, in cooperation with Lufthansa.

The 8th International Symposium on NBC Protection and Decontamination took place in Münster from May 20th to 23rd, 2019. The organizer was the Bundeswehr Research Institute for Protective Technologies and CBRN Protection – Defense Science Institute for Protective Technologies – NBC Protection (WIS).

The conference was aimed at members of science, the Bundeswehr, civil defense departments, procurement and technology agencies, research institutes, military NBC protection experts and industry. As an exclusive cooperation and framework contract partner for the worldwide implementation of services for disinsection, disinfection and special cleaning of aircraft for Lufthansa Technik, AKUT SOS CLEAN was also one of the participants.

The symposium was opened by Dr. Frank Sabath, Deputy Director of WIS and Chairman of NATO. The presentations took place in a total of nine panel sessions over three days and dealt with different focuses on the topics of decontamination technology, decontamination procedures and control, counter-terrorism, protective equipment, new threat scenarios and current research and development aspects.

The lecture by Joachim Klaus (Lufthansa) “A340 Repatriation Aircraft Robert Koch” presented the repatriation of infectious patients on the plane under medical supervision. In 2014, during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, almost 3,000 German volunteers were on site to help. The federal government demanded an opportunity to repatriate the helpers, even if they were infected with Ebola.