Screening begins with hiccups at BIA

Bangalore: Passenger screening at the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) for swine flu commenced on Wednesday and a medical centre has been set up near the immigration centre of the airport.
Though the state health department had said screening would start from Wednesday morning onwards full-fledged screening of international passengers who alighted at the airport actually commenced only by evening as the team of doctors arrived at the airport by around 4 pm.
Until then about five international flights had arrived with a large number of passengers. Prior to the deployment of medical officers, two airports doctors were screening the international passengers. Sources told The New Indian Express that as passengers kept arriving in large volumes it was difficult for the doctors to screen them and that there could have been instances of random screening done until the team of state-appointed doctors arrived at the airport.
30/04/09 ExpressBuzz

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Categories: Airports May 2009