EXTENSIVE MEDICAL SCREENING FOR EBOLA INSTALLED AT WEST AFRICAN AIRPORTS
August 1st, 2014
West African airports have imposed comprehensive health checks on passengers to fight the spread of the Ebola virus. In the region’s most populous country Nigeria, widespread passenger medical screening is under way, using screening, protection, detection and healthcare equipment, some donated by the USA government and Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Dr Unni Krishnan, disaster response and preparedness chief for aid group Plan International, said “disease isolation centres” have been established at international airports to quarantine passengers with ...
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