India's health ministry inspects airports for Ebola preparedness.

نویسنده

  • Sanjeet Bagcchi
چکیده

The Indian health minister, Jagat Prakash Nadda, has formed a committee with officials from the ministries of health, civil aviation, and immigration to check that all airports in the country are adhering to guidelines on quarantining people with suspected Ebola virus disease. The committee will report to the government in a week. A statement from the government said that Nadda emphasised the importance of alertness, intensive training, and capacity building of all stakeholders to be better equipped to deal with Ebola. He asked health ministry officials to form expert teams that would visit Indian states and report on the preparedness of their designated hospitals. He said that the training of doctors and medical staff should be a continuous exercise. Nadda said that India had a large medical force available within the defence ministry and that this force “could be beneficially utilised at the time of need.” He added that capacity building for Ebola case management should be initiated for these doctors and nurses to equip them for the emergency response. Nadda has also sought a detailed report on the surveillance measures for Ebola virus disease in Indian seaports. On 18 November a 26 year old resident of India was quarantined at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. Although the man was said to be cured of the disease, his semen tested positive for the Ebola virus. TIME magazine reported that the man had no symptoms of Ebola infection and tested negative for the virus before he flew from Liberia. It said that semen can test positive for up to three months after clinical clearance of the virus and that the man would be kept in the airport’s health facility until his semen tested negative.

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Assessment of Ebola virus disease preparedness in the WHO South-East Asia Region

OBJECTIVE To conduct assessments of Ebola virus disease preparedness in countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region. METHODS Nine of 11 countries in the region agreed to be assessed. During February to November 2015 a joint team from WHO and ministries of health conducted 4-5 day missions to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thaila...

متن کامل

Ebola, Zika and the International Health Regulations – implications for Port Health Preparedness

BACKGROUND The outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa in 2014-2015 was unprecedented in terms of its scale and consequence.  This, together with the emergence of Zika virus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in 2016, has again highlighted the potential for disease to spread across international borders and provided an impetus for countries to review their Port Health ...

متن کامل

Ebola a reality of modern Public Health; need for Surveillance, Preparedness and Response Training for Health Workers and other multidisciplinary teams: a case for Uganda

INTRODUCTION West Africa is experiencing the largest ever reported Ebola outbreak. Over 20,000 people have been infected of which about 9000 have died. It is possible that lack of community understanding of the epidemic and lack of institutional memory and inexperienced health workers could have led to the rapid spread of the disease. In this paper, we share Uganda's experiences on how the capa...

متن کامل

Assessment of Ebola Virus Disease, Health Care Infrastructure, and Preparedness — Four Counties, Southeastern Liberia, August 2014

Ebola virus disease (Ebola) is a multisystem disease caused by a virus of the genus Ebolavirus. In late March 2014, Ebola cases were described in Liberia, with epicenters in Lofa County and later in Montserrado County. While information about case burden and health care infrastructure was available for the two epicenters, little information was available about remote counties in southeastern Li...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • BMJ

دوره 349  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014