A team from the Directorate of Public Health conducted an inspection at
the Coimbatore International Airport on Thursday as part of an
initiative to try to prevent spread of the Zika virus.
A five-member team of public health officers, including deputy director Dr S Somasundaram, joint director (vector borne disease control) Dr S Saravanan and city health officer Santosh Kumar, inspected the airport to check if there were mosquito breeding grounds.
The team inspected the airport's international arrival and departure terminal in accordance with the health ministry's guidelines on the disease.
They also checked if pointers on the virus and its symptoms had been displayed on a prominent notice board at the airport and circulars on the virus are present for distribution among passengers in the arrival terminal.
Airport director G Prakash Reddy said that the officers were satisfied with the sanitary conditions of the airport. "They did not find any existing or prospective mosquito breeding grounds," said Reddy.
"They again briefed the state health officer posted at the airport for the symptoms he should look out for among patients and the protocol to be followed if they have a suspected Zika infected patient," he said.
A five-member team of public health officers, including deputy director Dr S Somasundaram, joint director (vector borne disease control) Dr S Saravanan and city health officer Santosh Kumar, inspected the airport to check if there were mosquito breeding grounds.
The team inspected the airport's international arrival and departure terminal in accordance with the health ministry's guidelines on the disease.
They also checked if pointers on the virus and its symptoms had been displayed on a prominent notice board at the airport and circulars on the virus are present for distribution among passengers in the arrival terminal.
Airport director G Prakash Reddy said that the officers were satisfied with the sanitary conditions of the airport. "They did not find any existing or prospective mosquito breeding grounds," said Reddy.
"They again briefed the state health officer posted at the airport for the symptoms he should look out for among patients and the protocol to be followed if they have a suspected Zika infected patient," he said.