WHO Ebola team visits airport today

Published November 26, 2014
At its airports, Pakistan has in place a system for incoming travellers to fill out health cards and provide information about what health risks they may have been exposed to. —AFP/file
At its airports, Pakistan has in place a system for incoming travellers to fill out health cards and provide information about what health risks they may have been exposed to. —AFP/file

KARACHI: Provincial health authorities are prepared to receive a mission of the WHO on Wednesday — part of the global health regulator’s move to assess arrangements made by the government to keep Ebola virus out of the country, officials said on Tuesday.

Officials said the WHO mission, which arrived in Pakistan on Monday, would visit Karachi airport on Wednesday where the officials would assess how effectively the government was prepared to face Ebola threat.

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2014

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