Apart from the standard day-to-day functioning of these structures, they have operated successfully during the Ebola outbreak, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by coronavirus (MERS CoV) and the poliomyelitis threat.
Osim što su te strukture uspješno djelovale u svojemu normalnom svakodnevnom radu, tako je bilo i tijekom izbijanja ebole te prijetnji bliskoistočnog respiratornog sindroma kojega uzrokuje koronavirus (MERS CoV) i poliomijelitisa (dječja paraliza).