FAAN Reassures Nigerians Over Fresh Ebola Outbreak In Congo
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Wednesday consoled Nigerians that it had stored on maintaining reconnaissance on the airplane terminals to hold an Ebola outbreak within the nation.
The General Manager, Corporate Communications, FAAN, Henrietta Yakubu, made this recognized to the News Agency of Nigeriain Lagos following a fresh outbreak of the illness within the Democratic Republic of Congo.
reviews that the Federal Executive Council had on Wednesday directed that steps needs to be taken to forestall the illness from coming into Nigeria.
Yakubu stated FAAN had by no means stopped the screening of inbound passengers on the airports after the outbreak which occurred in Nigeria in 2014 after an American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, introduced it into the nation.
Yakubu stated FAAN nonetheless had all of the gear and sufficient personnel on the airport to forestall the virus from coming into the nation.
She stated: “We have all the time had thermal scanners in our airports that monitor temperature of passengers and seize their photos. We nonetheless have hand sanitisers in our relaxation rooms too.
“When passengers walk pass the scanners, it registers their temperature. If yours is high, you are pulled aside for observation.”
According to her, the scanners are fastened equipment on the arrival halls that take the image and temperature of any given passenger at a selected time because the traveller passes by them.
Yakubu also said that this was being supported by Port Health officers who be certain that any suspicious individual is introduced in for statement.
She stated the authority wouldn't relent on its effort at guaranteeing that inbound passengers have been correctly screened on the airports.
Also, the General Secretary, National Union of Air Transport Employees, Olayinka Abioye, stated authorities had what it takes to forestall the lethal virus from coming into the nation once more.
Abioye stated: “Nigeria can checkmate the virus and we've what it takes. When I used to be coming into the nation not too long ago i noticed quite a few employees of port well being service and I by no means knew they have been as many as that.
“FAAN officers have been additionally on the arrival corridor checking passengers as they arrive in, asking what flights and nation they have been coming in from.
“They even have the gear prepared to verify passengers as they transfer into the arrival corridor.
“I do not have any doubt whatsoever because they have the capacity to curtail it and all that is needed is proper information.”
Abioye stated consistent with authorities’s positions, FAAN additionally wanted to apportion aviation staff in opposition to associating or mixing with passengers who got here from that a part of the nation.
He stated all of the nation wanted to do was to contain in optimistic propagation of Ebola and the hazards in associating with anybody who was already contaminated.
He stated: “I believe our security agencies at the airports, particularly, the Customs, Immigration, Port Health Services attendance and other allied security providers have to be properly briefed.”
Abioye counseled the Nigerian authorities for being very a lot alive to its tasks of stopping the illness from moving into the nation.