Provide Ebola detection facilities at Pune, Nagpur airports: Bombay HC
12 Sept 2014 5:19 AM IST
The direction was given by a bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka on a PIL filed by activist Ketan Tirodkar alleging that India was not fully equipped to prevent the spread of Ebola.
The PIL said many persons of Indian origin are leaving African countries due to outbreak of Ebola and returning to India where there are no facilities either to detect or treat the epidemic.
The union government on Wednesday filed an affidavit saying they had taken adequate precautions at the airports to detect Ebola virus among the passengers, following which the bench expressed that prima facie it was satisfied with the measures undertaken by the Centre.
The court was informed that the state government had written a letter to the Director of Medical Education and Research requesting them to make necessary arrangements at Pune, Nagpur and other airports to medically screen passengers who come from the affected African countries.
The Union government has put in place health screening for detection of symptomatic cases.
The PIL said many persons of Indian origin are leaving African countries due to outbreak of Ebola and returning to India where there are no facilities either to detect or treat the epidemic.
The union government on Wednesday filed an affidavit saying they had taken adequate precautions at the airports to detect Ebola virus among the passengers, following which the bench expressed that prima facie it was satisfied with the measures undertaken by the Centre.
The court was informed that the state government had written a letter to the Director of Medical Education and Research requesting them to make necessary arrangements at Pune, Nagpur and other airports to medically screen passengers who come from the affected African countries.
The Union government has put in place health screening for detection of symptomatic cases.
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