#Gabon:Implementation of monitoring cells against Ebola virus Libreville airport

 

According to the provisions taken by the government to the threat of Ebola outbreak in West Africa, several testing centers viruses were established by the military health service across the country.

There are more than thousand passengers from abroad that have already been reviewed by the screening center installed Libreville Leon Mba International Airport ebola virus and set up last Thursday in accordance with arrangements made by the government regarding the outbreak of ebola raging in west Africa.

Equipped with an electronic thermometer, the staff of the military health service look different passengers in search of lower symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

"We are here as part of the implementation of the response plan that we developed against Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus. On the team that was deployed at the Libreville International Airport, it is to screen all passengers arriving in Gabon, "said Lieutenant Colonel Angoué Eboue.

Teams mobilized for this purpose take turns day and night to ensure the effectiveness of the surveillance device under the supervision of an operational command scheduled to meet twice a week to review the data collected.

"We recorded Thursday about one thousand and eighty passengers. We did not detect any ill passenger from our deployment. We have already made ​​arrangements for deployment throughout the country because we have an operational command post, which meets twice a week and analyze all information. If the situation is alarming in the provinces we have the capability to deploy us, "Lieutenant Colonel reassured Angoué Eboue.

The device is composed of officers from the Ministry of Public Health, those in the military health service as well as elements of the police and border working closely as part of the security apparatus.

"The arrival of the military health service is a guarantee for the population. There are currently no cases of ebola fever at our airport, "said for his part Commander Lillian Leyigui, director of the Police and border (Paf).

The outbreak of foot due to Ebola virus that erupted earlier this year in Guinea Conakry has already killed more than two thousand dead. Over three thousand people are infected to date with the virus according to a latest report of the World Health Organization (WHO).

                                                                                                    lundi 8 septembre 2014   |  Gaboneco