Corporate News
By BDAfrica.com REPORTER
In Summary
- The epidemic has claimed 932 lives and infected more than 1,700 people across west Africa.
- Handgun thermometers, gloves and hand sanitizers have been provided to staff at Free Town, Monrovia, Accra, Lagos and Abuja.
- Liberia and Sierra Leone have already declared states of emergency.
All passengers travelling on Kenya Airways from Ebola-hit West African destinations will undergo temperature checks at the points of departure.
Handgun thermometers, gloves and hand
sanitizers have been provided to staff at Free Town, Monrovia, Accra,
Lagos and Abuja, the airline said.
Travellers will also be screened
by doctors in Nairobi before boarding aircraft for other destinations or
being allowed out of the airport.
The airline announced the
measures shortly after declaring that it would continue flying to these
destinations since the best advice from global health authorities shows
that the risk to most travellers remains low.
Additional measures on arrival
were spelled out by the airline which will also require passengers to
complete surveillance forms while on board the aircraft.
“All passengers arriving at Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) from West Africa and Entebbe, and
whose final destination is Nairobi, are now using a separate gate on
arrival where screening will be done before release to Immigration
officials, and into the country,” the statement signed by outgoing chief
executive Titus Naikuni reads. “Port Health, a division of the Ministry
of Health responsible for disease surveillance and public health
control at all points of entry, will regularly inform the various County
Health teams of persons who have travelled to their counties as per
surveillance forms.”
Transit passengers will also be screened before proceeding to their connecting flight.
“Adequate arrangements have been
put in place to avoid delays and misconnection,” Kenya Airways says.
“Kenya Airways provide Port Health details on the flights expected and
numbers of transit and terminating passengers beforehand to facilitate
planning for the screening.”
“We continuously monitor updates
from World Health Organisation, Centres for Disease Control and the
International Air Transport Association on the disease, its spread and
for guidelines on recommended actions,” they said.
British Airways earlier this week cancelled its flights to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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