diff --git a/message-bus-kafka/package-metadata.json b/message-bus-kafka/package-metadata.json
index 965c2d72..02922a18 100644
--- a/message-bus-kafka/package-metadata.json
+++ b/message-bus-kafka/package-metadata.json
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "KAFKA_CPU_RESERVE": "0.05",
     "KAFKA_MEMORY_LIMIT": "3G",
     "KAFKA_MEMORY_RESERVE": "500M",
-    "KAFKA_TOPICS": "2xx,reprocess,3xx,metrics:3:1",
+    "KAFKA_TOPICS": "2xx,2xx-async,3xx,reprocess,errors,metrics:3:1",
     "KAFDROP_CPU_LIMIT": "0",
     "KAFDROP_CPU_RESERVE": "0.05",
     "KAFDROP_MEMORY_LIMIT": "3G",
diff --git a/mpi-mediator/docker-compose.yml b/mpi-mediator/docker-compose.yml
index 72bf2af3..b6944cdc 100644
--- a/mpi-mediator/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/mpi-mediator/docker-compose.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ services:
       FHIR_DATASTORE_PROTOCOL: ${FHIR_DATASTORE_PROTOCOL}
       FHIR_DATASTORE_HOST: ${FHIR_DATASTORE_HOST}
       FHIR_DATASTORE_PORT: ${FHIR_DATASTORE_PORT}
+      DISABLE_VALIDATION: ${DISABLE_VALIDATION}
     deploy:
       placement:
         max_replicas_per_node: 1
diff --git a/mpi-mediator/importer/docker-compose.config.yml b/mpi-mediator/importer/docker-compose.config.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c492b242
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mpi-mediator/importer/docker-compose.config.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+version: '3.9'
+
+services:
+  # container for executing config import scripts for creating the OpenHIM channels used by the Mediator
+  mpi-mediator-config-importer:
+    image: node:erbium-alpine
+    environment:
+      OPENHIM_CORE_SERVICE_NAME: ${OPENHIM_CORE_SERVICE_NAME}
+      OPENHIM_MEDIATOR_API_PORT: ${OPENHIM_MEDIATOR_API_PORT}
+      OPENHIM_API_USERNAME: ${OPENHIM_USERNAME}
+      OPENHIM_API_PASSWORD: ${OPENHIM_PASSWORD}
+      # Reject unauthorised is only needed if the OpenHIM's SSL is not setup
+      NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED: 0
+    command: sh -c "node openhimConfig.js"
+    configs:
+      - source: mpi-mediator-config-importer-openhimConfig.js
+        target: /openhimConfig.js
+      - source: mpi-mediator-config-importer-openhim-import.json
+        target: /openhim-import.json
+    deploy:
+      replicas: 1
+      restart_policy:
+        condition: none
+
+configs:
+  mpi-mediator-config-importer-openhimConfig.js:
+    file: ./volume/openhimConfig.js
+    name: mpi-mediator-config-importer-openhimConfig.js-${mpi_mediator_config_importer_openhimConfig_js_DIGEST:?err}
+    labels:
+      name: mpi-mediator
+  mpi-mediator-config-importer-openhim-import.json:
+    file: ./volume/openhim-import.json
+    name: mpi-mediator-config-importer-openhim-import.json-${mpi_mediator_config_importer_openhim_import_js_DIGEST:?err}
+    labels:
+      name: mpi-mediator
diff --git a/mpi-mediator/importer/volume/openhim-import.json b/mpi-mediator/importer/volume/openhim-import.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..142f3dc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mpi-mediator/importer/volume/openhim-import.json
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+{
+  "Users": [
+    {
+      "groups": [
+        "admin"
+      ],
+      "firstname": "Super",
+      "surname": "User",
+      "email": "root@openhim.org",
+      "passwordAlgorithm": "sha512",
+      "passwordHash": "ea3824f17cf1379eb118a36bc7c8cf0f45712e2af7748567fca5313dec6fa66d61064e82a5e5cb88e998486ee3c7d0dac235bbeda8c341d6edc1c77406be2ab6",
+      "passwordSalt": "d4f622c0404f09bd959bfb263efa3452",
+      "expiry": null,
+      "locked": false,
+      "token": null,
+      "tokenType": null
+    }
+  ],
+  "Clients": [
+    {
+      "roles": [
+        "instant"
+      ],
+      "customTokenID": "test",
+      "clientID": "test",
+      "name": "Test Client"
+    }
+  ],
+  "Channels": [
+    {
+      "methods": [
+        "GET",
+        "POST"
+      ],
+      "type": "http",
+      "allow": [
+        "instant"
+      ],
+      "whitelist": [],
+      "authType": "private",
+      "matchContentTypes": [],
+      "properties": [],
+      "txViewAcl": [],
+      "txViewFullAcl": [],
+      "txRerunAcl": [],
+      "status": "enabled",
+      "rewriteUrls": false,
+      "addAutoRewriteRules": true,
+      "autoRetryEnabled": false,
+      "autoRetryPeriodMinutes": 60,
+      "routes": [
+        {
+          "type": "http",
+          "status": "enabled",
+          "forwardAuthHeader": false,
+          "name": "MPI Mediator",
+          "secured": false,
+          "host": "mpi-mediator",
+          "port": 3000,
+          "path": "",
+          "pathTransform": "",
+          "primary": true,
+          "username": "",
+          "password": ""
+        }
+      ],
+      "requestBody": true,
+      "responseBody": true,
+      "rewriteUrlsConfig": [],
+      "name": "MPI Orchestrations - Create/Read operations for patients and their clinical data",
+      "urlPattern": "^/fhir.*$",
+      "priority": null,
+      "matchContentRegex": null,
+      "matchContentXpath": null,
+      "matchContentValue": null,
+      "matchContentJson": null,
+      "pollingSchedule": null,
+      "tcpHost": null,
+      "tcpPort": null,
+      "updatedBy": {
+        "id": "63cd5092c962240014b87c59",
+        "name": "Super User"
+      },
+      "alerts": [],
+      "description": ""
+    },
+    {
+      "methods": [
+        "POST"
+      ],
+      "type": "http",
+      "allow": [
+        "instant"
+      ],
+      "whitelist": [],
+      "authType": "private",
+      "matchContentTypes": [],
+      "properties": [],
+      "txViewAcl": [],
+      "txViewFullAcl": [],
+      "txRerunAcl": [],
+      "status": "enabled",
+      "rewriteUrls": false,
+      "addAutoRewriteRules": true,
+      "autoRetryEnabled": false,
+      "autoRetryPeriodMinutes": 60,
+      "updatedBy": {
+        "id": "63cd5092c962240014b87c59",
+        "name": "Super User"
+      },
+      "routes": [
+        {
+          "type": "http",
+          "status": "enabled",
+          "forwardAuthHeader": false,
+          "name": "MPI Mediator",
+          "secured": false,
+          "host": "mpi-mediator",
+          "port": 3000,
+          "path": "",
+          "pathTransform": "",
+          "primary": true,
+          "username": "",
+          "password": ""
+        }
+      ],
+      "requestBody": true,
+      "responseBody": true,
+      "rewriteUrlsConfig": [],
+      "urlPattern": "^/async/fhir/?$",
+      "priority": null,
+      "matchContentRegex": null,
+      "matchContentXpath": null,
+      "matchContentValue": null,
+      "matchContentJson": null,
+      "pollingSchedule": null,
+      "tcpHost": null,
+      "tcpPort": null,
+      "alerts": [],
+      "name": "MPI Orchestration for fhir bundles - Asynchronous flow"
+    }
+  ],
+  "Mediators": [
+    {
+      "urn": "urn:mediator:mpi-mediator",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "name": "MPI mediator",
+      "description": "A mediator handling interactions between the OpenHIM Core service, Sante MPI, Hapi-FHIR, and Kafka",
+      "defaultChannelConfig": [
+        {
+          "methods": [
+            "POST",
+            "GET"
+          ],
+          "type": "http",
+          "allow": [
+            "instant"
+          ],
+          "whitelist": [],
+          "authType": "private",
+          "matchContentTypes": [],
+          "properties": [],
+          "txViewAcl": [],
+          "txViewFullAcl": [],
+          "txRerunAcl": [],
+          "status": "enabled",
+          "rewriteUrls": false,
+          "addAutoRewriteRules": true,
+          "autoRetryEnabled": false,
+          "autoRetryPeriodMinutes": 60,
+          "name": "MPI mediator",
+          "urlPattern": "^(/async)?/fhir.*$",
+          "routes": [
+            {
+              "type": "http",
+              "status": "enabled",
+              "forwardAuthHeader": false,
+              "name": "MPI Endpoint",
+              "host": "mpi-mediator",
+              "port": 3000,
+              "primary": true
+            }
+          ],
+          "alerts": [],
+          "rewriteUrlsConfig": []
+        }
+      ],
+      "endpoints": [
+        {
+          "type": "http",
+          "status": "enabled",
+          "forwardAuthHeader": false,
+          "name": "MPI Endpoint",
+          "host": "mpi-mediator",
+          "path": "/fhir",
+          "port": 3000,
+          "primary": true
+        }
+      ],
+      "configDefs": [],
+      "_lastHeartbeat": "2023-01-23T09:40:21.368Z",
+      "_uptime": 52784.4956787
+    }
+  ],
+  "ContactGroups": []
+}
diff --git a/mpi-mediator/importer/volume/openhimConfig.js b/mpi-mediator/importer/volume/openhimConfig.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c175f1c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mpi-mediator/importer/volume/openhimConfig.js
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+'use strict'
+
+const fs = require('fs')
+const https = require('https')
+const path = require('path')
+
+const OPENHIM_CORE_SERVICE_NAME = process.env.OPENHIM_CORE_SERVICE_NAME || 'openhim-core'
+const OPENHIM_API_PASSWORD =
+  process.env.OPENHIM_API_PASSWORD || 'openhim-password'
+const OPENHIM_MEDIATOR_API_PORT = process.env.OPENHIM_MEDIATOR_API_PORT || 8080
+const OPENHIM_API_USERNAME =
+  process.env.OPENHIM_API_USERNAME || 'root@openhim.org'
+
+const authHeader = new Buffer.from(
+  `${OPENHIM_API_USERNAME}:${OPENHIM_API_PASSWORD}`
+).toString('base64')
+
+const jsonData = JSON.parse(
+  fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, 'openhim-import.json'))
+)
+
+const data = JSON.stringify(jsonData)
+
+const options = {
+  protocol: 'https:',
+  hostname: OPENHIM_CORE_SERVICE_NAME,
+  port: OPENHIM_MEDIATOR_API_PORT,
+  path: '/metadata',
+  method: 'POST',
+  headers: {
+    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+    'Content-Length': data.length,
+    Authorization: `Basic ${authHeader}`
+  }
+}
+
+const req = https.request(options, res => {
+  if (res.statusCode == 401) {
+    throw new Error(`Incorrect OpenHIM API credentials`)
+  }
+
+  if (res.statusCode != 201) {
+    throw new Error(`Failed to import OpenHIM config: ${res.statusCode}`)
+  }
+
+  console.log('Successfully Imported OpenHIM Config')
+})
+
+req.on('error', error => {
+  throw new Error(`Failed to import OpenHIM config: ${error}`)
+})
+
+req.write(data)
+req.end()
diff --git a/mpi-mediator/package-metadata.json b/mpi-mediator/package-metadata.json
index 3bfb2ce1..962e63c5 100644
--- a/mpi-mediator/package-metadata.json
+++ b/mpi-mediator/package-metadata.json
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
     "TRUST_SELF_SIGNED": "true",
     "OPENHIM_USERNAME": "root@openhim.org",
     "OPENHIM_PASSWORD": "instant101",
+    "OPENHIM_CORE_SERVICE_NAME": "openhim-core",
+    "OPENHIM_MEDIATOR_API_PORT": 8080,
     "REGISTER_MEDIATOR": "true",
     "MPI_CLIENT_ID": "fiddler",
     "MPI_CLIENT_SECRET": "fiddler",
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@
     "KAFKA_ERROR_TOPIC": "errors",
     "FHIR_DATASTORE_PROTOCOL": "http",
     "FHIR_DATASTORE_HOST": "hapi-fhir",
-    "FHIR_DATASTORE_PORT": 8080
+    "FHIR_DATASTORE_PORT": 8080,
+    "DISABLE_VALIDATION": "false"
   }
 }
diff --git a/mpi-mediator/swarm.sh b/mpi-mediator/swarm.sh
index f71c77ce..8f1989ac 100644
--- a/mpi-mediator/swarm.sh
+++ b/mpi-mediator/swarm.sh
@@ -49,10 +49,13 @@ function initialize_package() {
     log error "Failed to deploy package"
     exit 1
   }
+  docker::deploy_config_importer "$COMPOSE_FILE_PATH/importer/docker-compose.config.yml" "mpi-mediator-config-importer" "mpi-mediator"
 }
 
 function destroy_package() {
-  docker::service_destroy "${SERVICE_NAMES}"
+  docker::service_destroy "${SERVICE_NAMES}" "mpi-mediator-config-importer"
+
+  docker::prune_configs "mpi-mediator"
 }
 
 main() {