No Suspected Ebola Patient in the Last 24 Hours
Updated: August 29, 2014 21:11 IST
New Delhi:
A total 161 passengers from the affected countries have
arrived in India in the last 24 hours and no suspected case of Ebola
patient has been admitted to any of the identified health facilities.
Three passengers from Sierra Leone who were admitted to the quarantine cum isolation facility at Delhi airport yesterday tested negative and were released from this facility, Health Ministry said.
Passengers have arrived at the airports of Mumbai (48), Delhi (73), Kochi (1), Bangalore (20), Kolkata(2) and Chennai (16) and Hyderabad (1).
Meanwhile state governments have been provided with the details of those 113 (including 2 Nepalese Nationals) passengers who were brought back by M/s Afcons and International SOS from Liberia to India.
"The Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) is tracking these passengers. Report has been received from the state IDSP units of 10 of the 20 states about 35 passengers being monitored. All are healthy," said Health Ministry officials.
Further, immigration officers have been trained in 12 of the 18 airports, where connecting flights arrive from the affected countries.
Crew members of flights arriving at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Trivandrum (11 airlines) have been sensitised on the measures to be taken by the airline crew and on the standard operating procedures for passenger screening at the airports by Airport Health Organizations, they said.
Three passengers from Sierra Leone who were admitted to the quarantine cum isolation facility at Delhi airport yesterday tested negative and were released from this facility, Health Ministry said.
Passengers have arrived at the airports of Mumbai (48), Delhi (73), Kochi (1), Bangalore (20), Kolkata(2) and Chennai (16) and Hyderabad (1).
Meanwhile state governments have been provided with the details of those 113 (including 2 Nepalese Nationals) passengers who were brought back by M/s Afcons and International SOS from Liberia to India.
"The Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) is tracking these passengers. Report has been received from the state IDSP units of 10 of the 20 states about 35 passengers being monitored. All are healthy," said Health Ministry officials.
Further, immigration officers have been trained in 12 of the 18 airports, where connecting flights arrive from the affected countries.
Crew members of flights arriving at Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Trivandrum (11 airlines) have been sensitised on the measures to be taken by the airline crew and on the standard operating procedures for passenger screening at the airports by Airport Health Organizations, they said.
Story First Published: August 29, 2014 20:13 IST http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/no-suspected-ebola-patient-in-the-last-24-hours-583898
