New Delhi/Jammu: The Centre on Wednesday tightened measures to detect Ebola cases and formed a three-member committee to plug gaps at airports, a day after it quarantined an Ebola survivor. Health minister J.P. Nadda said situation is under “complete control” and there is no need to panic.
Mr Nadda, who on Tuesday chaired an inter-ministerial meeting to review the situaiton, said his ministry will constitute teams of experts who will visit states and review preparedness of their hospitals designated for treating Ebola patients.
In Jammu, Mr Nadda told reporters that arrangements similar to the one at Delhi airport, which helped detect the virus in a 26-year-old Indian national returning from Liberia, have been put in place at 24 airports.
It has, however, emerged that guidelines for screening incoming passengers at airports for the deadly virus, including checking their 21-day travel history, are not implemented properly and lacunae have been detected in this, according to health ministry.
