Morocco News: No A/H1N1 case among passengers transiting Moroccan airports, ONDA

No A/H1N1 case among passengers transiting Moroccan airports, ONDA
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BM on 18 May, 2009 08:25:00
 
Casablanca - No case of H1N1 influenza was detected among travellers passing
through the Moroccan international airports, Director General of Morocco's
airports office (ONDA) said.
The thirty thermal scanners installed in the country's main airports spotted
244 passengers with high body temperature due to ordinary diseases unrelated to
the swine flu virus, Abdelhanine Benallou said Thursday at a  press briefing.
The thermal scanners purchased by ONDA belong to the latest generation and each
is provided with six thermal cameras to monitor the body heat of passengers
arriving from abroad, and prevent the infiltration of the virus, Benallou said.
Morocco was among the first countries to obtain this kind of sophisticated and
certified scanners, he added.
Mohammed Moussif, physician at the Mohammed V International Airport health
service, said passengers from Mexico benefit from a medical follow-up wherever
they go in Morocco.
Information sheets are handed out to the passengers in the airplane before they
are scanned for the flu, he said, adding that the medical unit is equipped with
all necessary means of intervention.
The main Moroccan airports are provided with 3,000 Tamiflu packs, 1,000 of
which are destined for the Mohammed V Airport.
MAP