This audit focused on finding the obstacles in securing an effective management system
during a national quarantine crisis, and to suggest measures for improvement. To do so, the
audit concentrated on systematically examining the appropriateness of the infectious disease
prevention system and the system’s use, as well as eliminating blind spots in the management
of quarantinable infectious diseases.

The audit was conducted on the overall response measures against quarantinable infectious
diseases between 2016 and October 2018 taken by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW)
and the Korea Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (KCDC), now known as Korea
Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). The audit also examined the efficacy of the
measures in each phase of response against quarantinable infectious diseases (including entry
screening) and against regional spread of diseases.

Also, the audit checked if the infrastructures for quarantine (including the Smart Quarantine
Information System, negative pressure ambulances, isolation or quarantine facilities, remote
diagnosis systems, and local testing centers operated by the National Quarantine Station),
which were newly built after the MERS outbreak in 2015, were being operated effectively.